Here and Now...What's Happening?

[Gekko]

Lights across the world

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[Gekko]

I'm gonna float away LOL

EDIT: I just had an experience where my hands felt like a thousand scintillating needles, and it spread to other parts of my body. Very intense. I thought for a few moments I might be completely overwhelmed.

Some of the suffering has been released.

The rain poured down in droves here for a few brief moments...

[Calz]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/q71/1234045_531609783573827_180163091_n.jpg



... think that will do the trick???


http://rlv.zcache.com/angry_rotten_tomato_cartoon_character_photosculpture-p153163510684721079env3c_400.jpg#throwing%20rotten%20tomatoes%20gif%20400x400

[ulli]

I'm gonna float away LOL

EDIT: I just had an experience where my hands felt like a thousand scintillating needles, and it spread to other parts of my body. Very intense. I thought for a few moments I might be completely overwhelmed.

Some of the suffering has been released.

The rain poured down in droves here for a few brief moments...

I love the floating idea, so I had to join you.


http://cl.jroo.me/z3/R/C/2/d/a.baa-Floating-Goat.jpg

[Gekko]

I can't believe whatever this is that's happening. But it's happening.

The mind will be the last thing to let go.

[Gekko]

This poor man has a crazy hippie dancing on his diving board.

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[Gekko]

This might seem strange and oversexualized to some. Oh well. Just one of many possibilities.

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Never too late.

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[Gekko]

It's just alchemy....

Credits to a very special person

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Just let me know when to stop, ulli. I'll take it somewhere else :)

[Gekko]

Integration

Look at your Shadows :D

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[Gekko]

Breathing deeply

Eating mindfully

Plenty of water...

Yes, this is good.

[Gekko]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-82NDqgRvDHg/UPcFwQqA-KI/AAAAAAAAAHE/tklxAMihqiA/s320/Pie-in-the-Sky-34x28in-1978-1.jpg

Keep one eye on the pie in the sky!

[heretogrow]

Me of so little faith...
I ordered four gas masks on Friday! One for each of us in this house. Freaking out about Syria and world war three, mainly because I don't understand it enough to unravel it. Got so worried that I drank the concoction that I started several months ago to extract the essence from roses. It was supposed to turn out to be rose oil. In truth it was roses soaked in vodka for three months. I think the word was tincture to describe the process. Anyway I drank the tincture after waking up in the middle of the night stressing over war over this weekend. So much for natural health products, I slept like a baby and was ready to start all over again with a warriors strength in the morning. My only wish... I had a self-sustainable farm with the ability to save and feed everyone I love!

I know I have endotheworlditus! IF I didn't think this world was worth saving it would not be so severe!

On a wonderful note my granny has decided maybe twenty-five days of radiation and chemo are not such a good idea! I ordered some tulips, grape hyacinths and crocus bulbs to plant in the yard for the spring.

I know she will be here to enjoy them from her favorite chair that looks out the window! This is meant to be a surprise. I hope I can keep a secret!

Much love to all of you beautiful, awesome villagers! Life is good!
Julia :)

[ulli]

Integration

Look at your Shadows :D

JGCsyshUU-A

What a treat to come home to the Village and find all these goodies from Gekko.
Thank you so much. This shadow tune is my favorite....

[Guest]

Made some banana nut bread today during a much needed thunder storm. I'm so grateful. Watched the ion clouds come in charging the air. Heck of a storm -Rained for 3 hours and the lightning cracked and thunder boomed.

Sitting on my front porch reveling in the negatively charged clear energy created by the storm and eating warm banana nut bread with butter.


Here is a picture I took this past weekend of the Red Oak grove-forest I live in -this is in the northern part of the forest.

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Love


Nora

[Flash]

It is harder than ever to stay anchored in the Here and Now while war is looming, I find.
Is my mind paying tricks on me?
Yet the smallest effort to become present is instantly rewarded.
Suddenly I can hear nature's noises, river, bird song,
and now that the bridge is open again I can hear cars on the road above.

I had a dream this morning, I was in Knightsbridge, London, and was telling someone how I once had lived there, and often when shopping in Peter Jones I would see at least a dozen women wearing my clothes then, and now I don't know what is going on.
And this person made a derogatory remark about how unsophisticated and old fashioned everything was back then and I said at least then there was a lot less crime.

So Im now trying to figure out what the dream meant.
It has something to do with aging, and escaping into memories of the "good old days"
just as the older people were doing long ago when I was still young,
and they felt out of place with the material progress around them. I used to think of them as whiners.

To me your dream seems to be telling simply that things are changing in London. So you do not know what is going on. Didn't the parliament voted against going into Syria?? There were lot less crime then because UK would not even dream of invading another country, at that time. And who knows, there might be lots less crime once again. It could also be the other way around, some attack being there.

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http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-82NDqgRvDHg/UPcFwQqA-KI/AAAAAAAAAHE/tklxAMihqiA/s320/Pie-in-the-Sky-34x28in-1978-1.jpg

Keep one eye on the pie in the sky!

Yam, i love flying pîes. I bet I will dream I have been taken by aliens looking like pies, lol. Worst, they will use that image to make me comfortable with their taking. Gekko! What did you do to me??? LOL

[1inMany]

Exhausted. Just got home from the emergency room, nothing serious. Em got twelve stitches, nine in one leg and three in the other. She dropped a plate, which hit the counter on the way to the floor, and it caught both her legs, thigh level.

Good news is that I went in armed and walked out unscathed. Well, I think so anyway. Will see how much clearing happens overnight.

Anyway, exhausted but can't sleep. Don't ya just hate that?

Much Love,

[Gekko]

Anyway, exhausted but can't sleep. Don't ya just hate that?

Tell me about it~!

http://www.beyond.com/data/articles/images/multitasking1.jpg

Good night (again), villagers

[araucaria]

Me of so little faith...
I ordered four gas masks on Friday! One for each of us in this house. Freaking out about Syria and world war three, mainly because I don't understand it enough to unravel it. Got so worried that I drank the concoction that I started several months ago to extract the essence from roses. It was supposed to turn out to be rose oil. In truth it was roses soaked in vodka for three months. I think the word was tincture to describe the process. Anyway I drank the tincture after waking up in the middle of the night stressing over war over this weekend. So much for natural health products, I slept like a baby and was ready to start all over again with a warriors strength in the morning. My only wish... I had a self-sustainable farm with the ability to save and feed everyone I love!

I know I have endotheworlditus! IF I didn't think this world was worth saving it would not be so severe!

On a wonderful note my granny has decided maybe twenty-five days of radiation and chemo are not such a good idea! I ordered some tulips, grape hyacinths and crocus bulbs to plant in the yard for the spring.

I know she will be here to enjoy them from her favorite chair that looks out the window! This is meant to be a surprise. I hope I can keep a secret!

Much love to all of you beautiful, awesome villagers! Life is good!
Julia :)
Sounds like a new cocktail: the Bloody Anemic Mary! Should be OK if you enjoy vodka.

Heretogrow, endoftheworlditis is so last year! It didn't happen then, and it won't happen now :) But I'm not pretending I shouldn't feel too comfortable if I were in Syria...

For the dear old granny, Flash might have picked up a few ideas on her thread? Alternatively something with roses and... well perhaps not.

The wonderful Paul has been rounding up my strays from Saturday for reposting. There were some zebras, which belong here, and also a reference to the 100% red heifer that is supposed to be adequate penance for starting Armageddon. I was suggesting we could spoil its hairdo, and will post it h ere as well.

Have a great day everyone.


http://www.upsidetrader.com/wp-content/uploads/zebra1.jpg A zebra's nightmare: http://www.over-blog.com/Les_colonnes_de_Buren_ce_quil_faut_savoir-1095204432-art410960.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Buren



Some Fundamentalist Christians believe that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ cannot occur until the Third Temple is constructed in Jerusalem, which requires the appearance of a red heifer born in Israel. Clyde Lott, a cattle breeder in O'Neill, Nebraska, United States, is attempting to systematically breed red heifers and export them to Israel to establish a breeding line of red heifers in Israel in the hope that this will bring about the construction of the Third Temple and ultimately the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_heifer (Above from Wikipedia) I recall reading that some neocon Christian U.S. Representatives had invested in this endeavor, hoping to speed the process along. Two red heifers that had been considered candidates were found to have been "blemished" (determined by a Rabbi in Israel?), however, there's apparently a new one, that if held to be unblemished for 3 years (it was born in 2010?), will be the one that will signal "the end". There's lots of info on this if you do a search with words like: red heifer, Armageddon, unblemished, Israel, etc., and if you can stomach the bizarre web sites you may find...oiiii. Instead of turning gray over this, let's apply a little RSA to the red heifer and turn one or two of her hairs gray. :)

[Xeron]

Here I am in a car park waiting for my partner to finish at the doctors. Its been a warm 23 degree day in Canberra, Australia.
The sun is setting on a busy day and the background city noise is disturbing the silence of my car's retreat.
I do rather enjoy my rare peaceful moments of solitude... And thus here I am with the very cliche of today's technology... A iphone with a broken screen, on an internet forum...

[ulli]

Thank you Paul for digging up my lost posts.
Some of them I could have easily donated to the hacker,
they were not really worth saving....

so now I'm feeling guilty that you went out of your way for me.

There is a lesson here for me... in future more effort, please, ulli.

But then again, what is this that I can't appreciate
that which my hands have wrought?
This harsh self judgment, which was with me when I was doing fashion collections,
and it is still with me now?

This is what drives fashion...this striving for newness.

Anyway, there is one gif worth rescuing,
It was for Meeradas, and he never saw it, so here it is again:



http://i.imgur.com/6ldOBpx.gif

[ulli]

Exhausted. Just got home from the emergency room, nothing serious. Em got twelve stitches, nine in one leg and three in the other. She dropped a plate, which hit the counter on the way to the floor, and it caught both her legs, thigh level.

Good news is that I went in armed and walked out unscathed. Well, I think so anyway. Will see how much clearing happens overnight.

Anyway, exhausted but can't sleep. Don't ya just hate that?

Much Love,


Twelve stitches, nothing serious?????
And what about the shredded nerves?

This was a serious wake-up call, no wonder you can't sleep.
Soothing energies are called for here, not only for Em, but the whole family,
I would imagine.

[araucaria]

Exhausted. Just got home from the emergency room, nothing serious. Em got twelve stitches, nine in one leg and three in the other. She dropped a plate, which hit the counter on the way to the floor, and it caught both her legs, thigh level.

Good news is that I went in armed and walked out unscathed. Well, I think so anyway. Will see how much clearing happens overnight.

Anyway, exhausted but can't sleep. Don't ya just hate that?

Much Love,


Twelve stitches, nothing serious?????
And what about the shredded nerves?

This was a serious wake-up call, no wonder you can't sleep.
Soothing energies are called for here, not only for Em, but the whole family,
I would imagine.
This time last year, my wife got a nasty gash in the arm, three layers deep, but now you have to know where to look to see the scar. Let's hope Em was stitched up as neatly as that. There is no point carrying around the trauma of the moment for the rest of your life.

[ulli]

I thought this was fascinating...sometimes I think juggling the different aspects of life
works better because we are in the dark about so many things.
A blind juggler.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-vegas-juggler-20130901,0,4807197,full.story

[transiten]

Hi! I've had no computor for some time...i had an e-mail from avalon asking me to change my password since the forum has "been compromised"???? But i can't find any post about this???

Information please....

[araucaria]

Hi! I've had no computor for some time...i had an e-mail from avalon asking me to change my password since the forum has "been compromised"???? But i can't find any post about this???

Information please....
transiten, yes, change your pw then start here:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?62831

[araucaria]

I thought this was fascinating...sometimes I think juggling the different aspects of life
works better because we are in the dark about so many things.
A blind juggler.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-vegas-juggler-20130901,0,4807197,full.story
Here's a blind concert pianist. Any concert pianist could probably play blindfold, but learning the stuff without being able to read music is pretty astounding.

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[araucaria]

Now that we’ve all had to change our passwords, let me tell you my old one. As I mentioned somewhere a while back, I pinched my pseudo from someone who I thought didn’t need it any more: a Guardian cryptic crossword compiler who, it turned out, was still in business and turned ninety shortly after I joined Avalon 2 ½ years ago.

On a topical note, Araucaria’s latest effort was published on July 13 although he announced back in January (in a crossword of course, indicating that he had ’18 down of the 19, which is being treated with 13 15’) that he was suffering from ‘cancer’ of the ‘oesophagus’ (a subject that synchronistically came up in another connection in conversation yesterday) and receiving ‘palliative care’. While one would expect this to be a nonagenarian’s last battle, he is certainly giving his illness a run for its money. This is doubtless due to a positive attitude whereby his clue for 18 down was ‘Sign of growth’ – sign as in astrological sign, growth as in tumor, but ambiguous because the positive sense is more obvious. To see illness as a sign of growth is indeed a positive message that I want to pass on to Flash. It certainly helped me only this summer.

When I joined the forum, Atticus/Charles was airing his insider knowledge of the ‘33’ rulers of the world, who apparently split shortly afterwards. So when I chose a password, I thought of security as ‘not giving a clue’, but possibly instead giving a clue address, namely ’33 down’ (there may have been a bit of punctuation as well). Hence, whenever a hacker came along and found this by now useless password, he would at least be reminded at this coded level of the upper level campaign to bring about the downfall of the elite. They are so keen on of every kind of symbology, I just thought I would join in :)

http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/25842
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jan/18/john-graham-araucaria-crosswords-interview

[1inMany]

You were right, Ulli. What an ordeal. I don't know why it is that I can do some things really well, handle most crises in a calm manner and fall apart later...but...when it comes to bloody things, forget about it. Just one of those things. It is taken care of now, and the stitches are very neat, tidy, Em says she sees beauty in them because they are symmetrical. So I'm hoping, auracaria, that she actually doesn't get a long-term reminder.

I have a lot of compassion for Em, first there is not a single possibility of her fitting in. But one of her biggest challenges appears to be maneuvering this physical body. I have refused to tell her she is clumsy even one time. And I tell her all the time that she has inner grace. It only takes watching her for a little bit to realize that she isn't real coordinated. Just a small thing, but I don't want her growing up focusing on the fact that she can't go a week without multiple falls over her own feet.

So, thank you for the soothing energy. Em needs it, and she can always use a shot of "you are loved for who you are, you are loveable, and you are valuable."

She could also use a shot of "do your Algebra homework!" Hahaha.

Much Love,

Oh, and I am so, so grateful to have my thank you button back. It is always trying to my nerves to "tiptoe" through the village. That's what it feels like when I read and (try to) share from my phone.

[ulli]

Now that we’ve all had to change our passwords, let me tell you my old one. As I mentioned somewhere a while back, I pinched my pseudo from someone who I thought didn’t need it any more: a Guardian cryptic crossword compiler who, it turned out, was still in business and turned ninety shortly after I joined Avalon 2 ½ years ago.

On a topical note, Araucaria’s latest effort was published on July 13 although he announced back in January (in a crossword of course, indicating that he had ’18 down of the 19, which is being treated with 13 15’) that he was suffering from ‘cancer’ of the ‘oesophagus’ (a subject that synchronistically came up in another connection in conversation yesterday) and receiving ‘palliative care’. While one would expect this to be a nonagenarian’s last battle, he is certainly giving his illness a run for its money. This is doubtless due to a positive attitude whereby his clue for 18 down was ‘Sign of growth’ – sign as in astrological sign, growth as in tumor, but ambiguous because the positive sense is more obvious. To see illness as a sign of growth is indeed a positive message that I want to pass on to Flash. It certainly helped me only this summer.

When I joined the forum, Atticus/Charles was airing his insider knowledge of the ‘33’ rulers of the world, who apparently split shortly afterwards. So when I chose a password, I thought of security as ‘not giving a clue’, but possibly instead giving a clue address, namely ’33 down’ (there may have been a bit of punctuation as well). Hence, whenever a hacker came along and found this by now useless password, he would at least be reminded at this coded level of the upper level campaign to bring about the downfall of the elite. They are so keen on of every kind of symbology, I just thought I would join in :)

http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/25842
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jan/18/john-graham-araucaria-crosswords-interview

Wow, araucaria, that is one deep oesophagus.
I believe I have underestimated you until now. I must apologize.

By the way, we are less than 100 posts away from the 33,333.
Would you like me to reserve the space for you?

[1inMany]

Chuckle...as if this would ever actually happen...

https://sphotos-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1157390_650832878280341_1643563507_n.jpg

[1inMany]

Last night, we were in the emergency room. I was well protected, Em was also. Good thing, too, because the local ambulance service was busy. And so was the Life Flight helicopter. Okay, so the cool part. I stepped out of my body into the other rooms, to the baby girl's room, to the little boy's room, and to the older lady's room. And I saw me do it. An angel, light and glowing, soothing and giving comfort.

Where's that animated wow...

Much Love,

[ulli]

Last night, we were in the emergency room. I was well protected, Em was also. Good thing, too, because the local ambulance service was busy. And so was the Life Flight helicopter. Okay, so the cool part. I stepped out of my body into the other rooms, to the baby girl's room, to the little boy's room, and to the older lady's room. And I saw me do it. An angel, light and glowing, soothing and giving comfort.

Where's that animated wow...

Much Love,

Here are three WOWs following Dennis' lead

http://www.frankrega.com/wow-animated.gif

http://www.frankrega.com/wow-animated.gif

http://www.frankrega.com/wow-animated.gif

[jiminii]

Last night, we were in the emergency room. I was well protected, Em was also. Good thing, too, because the local ambulance service was busy. And so was the Life Flight helicopter. Okay, so the cool part. I stepped out of my body into the other rooms, to the baby girl's room, to the little boy's room, and to the older lady's room. And I saw me do it. An angel, light and glowing, soothing and giving comfort.

Where's that animated wow...

Much Love,

Here are three WOWs following Dennis' lead

http://www.frankrega.com/wow-animated.gif

http://www.frankrega.com/wow-animated.gif

http://www.frankrega.com/wow-animated.gif

yes it's turning on here too

my whole beingness lights up

jm

[ulli]

Last night, we were in the emergency room. I was well protected, Em was also. Good thing, too, because the local ambulance service was busy. And so was the Life Flight helicopter. Okay, so the cool part. I stepped out of my body into the other rooms, to the baby girl's room, to the little boy's room, and to the older lady's room. And I saw me do it. An angel, light and glowing, soothing and giving comfort.

Where's that animated wow...

Much Love,

Here are three WOWs following Dennis' lead

http://www.frankrega.com/wow-animated.gif

http://www.frankrega.com/wow-animated.gif

http://www.frankrega.com/wow-animated.gif

yes it's turning on here too

my whole beingness lights up

jm


All we have to do is reply to each others' posts now, going wow, ...wow, ...wow, ...
what else is there to do?

[ulli]

Waving at our 58 guests reading this now:

Avail yourselves to our WOW fest, people....
And keep it glowing, wherever you are.
Hit your world with WOW shine.

[Marianne]

http://www.frankrega.com/wow-animated.gif http://www.frankrega.com/wow-animated.gif http://www.frankrega.com/wow-animated.gif

hehehe

[araucaria]

Now that we’ve all had to change our passwords, let me tell you my old one. As I mentioned somewhere a while back, I pinched my pseudo from someone who I thought didn’t need it any more: a Guardian cryptic crossword compiler who, it turned out, was still in business and turned ninety shortly after I joined Avalon 2 ½ years ago.

On a topical note, Araucaria’s latest effort was published on July 13 although he announced back in January (in a crossword of course, indicating that he had ’18 down of the 19, which is being treated with 13 15’) that he was suffering from ‘cancer’ of the ‘oesophagus’ (a subject that synchronistically came up in another connection in conversation yesterday) and receiving ‘palliative care’. While one would expect this to be a nonagenarian’s last battle, he is certainly giving his illness a run for its money. This is doubtless due to a positive attitude whereby his clue for 18 down was ‘Sign of growth’ – sign as in astrological sign, growth as in tumor, but ambiguous because the positive sense is more obvious. To see illness as a sign of growth is indeed a positive message that I want to pass on to Flash. It certainly helped me only this summer.

When I joined the forum, Atticus/Charles was airing his insider knowledge of the ‘33’ rulers of the world, who apparently split shortly afterwards. So when I chose a password, I thought of security as ‘not giving a clue’, but possibly instead giving a clue address, namely ’33 down’ (there may have been a bit of punctuation as well). Hence, whenever a hacker came along and found this by now useless password, he would at least be reminded at this coded level of the upper level campaign to bring about the downfall of the elite. They are so keen on of every kind of symbology, I just thought I would join in :)

http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/25842
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jan/18/john-graham-araucaria-crosswords-interview

Wow, araucaria, that is one deep oesophagus.
I believe I have underestimated you until now. I must apologize.

By the way, we are less than 100 posts away from the 33,333.
Would you like me to reserve the space for you?
Thanks Ulli, but no thanks, we've been through that little to-do once before. Anyway the numbers are all wrong now.

Edit: sorry, I didn't know what was on this page. Do we all go wow or something? Me too then

[Dennis Leahy]

...By the way, we are less than 100 posts away from the 33,333.
Would you like me to reserve the space for you?Hold 44,444 for me please. :~)

Dennis

[ulli]

Last night, we were in the emergency room. I was well protected, Em was also. Good thing, too, because the local ambulance service was busy. And so was the Life Flight helicopter. Okay, so the cool part. I stepped out of my body into the other rooms, to the baby girl's room, to the little boy's room, and to the older lady's room. And I saw me do it. An angel, light and glowing, soothing and giving comfort.

Where's that animated wow...

Much Love,





Just look at what you started here....
A good example of how to turn negative energy around,
and make lemonade out of the lemons life offers. Thank you. :hug:

[1inMany]

I'm cracking up here. This is awesome. And I can't believe you found the exact one :)

http://www.frankrega.com/wow-animated.gif
http://www.frankrega.com/wow-animated.gif
http://www.frankrega.com/wow-animated.gif

Much Love,

[Calz]

Hey villagerz ... been wandering ... dropping by for a tune.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKj6ZWUePJ0

[Gekko]

Ok something strange just happened... I was calling a transportation service to get a ride to classes tomorrow. I dialed an extension, and suddenly I hear this creepy whispering man. I couldn't make out the words... If it was static it was the most bizarre static I've ever heard. After loudly saying "hello?" a few times I hung up the phone. I got the impression I shouldn't listen to it...

A bit freaked out, breathing deeply...

[northstar]

Ok something strange just happened... I was calling a transportation service to get a ride to classes tomorrow. I dialed an extension, and suddenly I hear this creepy whispering man. I couldn't make out the words... If it was static it was the most bizarre static I've ever heard. After loudly saying "hello?" a few times I hung up the phone. I got the impression I shouldn't listen to it...

A bit freaked out, breathing deeply...

Close the portal. Cleanse and ground.
Peace.

[Ernie Nemeth]

So, attack successful. Let it ride its course. Watched the obvious ploy from afar. Meditated in defense. Called my protectors to do their job. Listened to the insanity pour out of my mind. Went to work again at nite. Today I feel fine. A little jumpy, nerves frazzled. I've no allusions as to what happened.
By the way, when I am under such influence I always think of the village and Avalon and my friends here - it gives me strength. Hope you don't mind me tapping in to the collective well...

[Gekko]

Close the portal. Cleanse and ground. Peace.

Ok, I tried with what little I know, though I haven't a clue about closing portals and such.

Now, let me start off on a better footing.

As I sit here, my desk is covered with several items from my 'weekend escapade'. A box of tissues, a magic book, MP3 player, and a flashlight for those late-night walks. The temperature is even, not too warm, not too cold. A pile of magazines sits in the corner, collections of scrap cutouts to be used for collaging. War and Peace, that doorstopper of a book. A few rays of sunlight diffuse through the clouds, giving the greenery outside a warm glow...

[ulli]

My desk today, in fact, Here and Now a few minutes ago...(if that counts)

http://i1144.photobucket.com/albums/o491/orosivalleyjewelry/214f14ac-4fdd-49a5-a1fa-d512435a8d70_zps332d73cc.jpg?t=1378236263

[ulli]

So, attack successful. Let it ride its course. Watched the obvious ploy from afar. Meditated in defense. Called my protectors to do their job. Listened to the insanity pour out of my mind. Went to work again at nite. Today I feel fine. A little jumpy, nerves frazzled. I've no allusions as to what happened.
By the way, when I am under such influence I always think of the village and Avalon and my friends here - it gives me strength. Hope you don't mind me tapping in to the collective well...


So I googled "collective well" and found a photo that I had just seen on Pinterest yesterday.
Funny you should mention it.

A collective well in India:

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/51/61/45/516145957283a9bb681e6647e16b1c46.jpg

[TargeT]

My dad tried to one up me and my motorcycle in the pool trick.... I think he won..

from an email I got form him:


This is funny -- tried to out do you this week end - took my Razor up the side of a mountain, missed my escape route and ended up on an 80 percent straight up grade (not for long!) went airborn over backwards did a couple endos then a spiral so that I could roll sideways down the mountain - said to my self "self - this isn't working, next time it comes around and will have weels on the ground - punch it and point the front down the mountain. It worked but was still too steep for a non mountain goat to get out of it. Managed to creep it down to the escape route that I had missed. Lots of body damage on the Razor as well as the stupid pilot, not too much blood from being pelted by sharp shale flying everywhere. I feel like I was attacked by a bunch of flying monkeys with base ball bats, I look good in purple. A couple sprained fingers and sore as hell - can't wait to see what the shop will come up with. Can,t believe what we do in the name of fun. "if it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger" _ I think that equates to brain damage - where was I ? OH I saw something shiny - Hugs

and I countered with:

http://www.explosm.net/db/files/Comics/Dave/theonlyplaneicoulddisguisemypenisasisanairbusa380andthatsahilariousquipaboutmygiganticpenisgirthnonp lanetypesalsodontdisguiseyourdickasastealthbomberthathasconnoctationsthatlllandyouinprison.png

[PurpleLama]

Thanks, target, that caused a major outburst and now my employees think I am even more of a freak!

God, that was so terrible(ly funny)

[PurpleLama]

I posted it into the Theories of the Deeper Understanding of Things, in case it is found to be too much for the Village....

[Michelle Marie]

Wow! I'm alive to tell this true story. This just happened a few days ago (Thurs morning--flew back Friday morning). I still have the aches, bumps, scrapes, and bruises.

I'll catch up the rest of my life's changes later...I've been busy.

I WAS ABDUCTED!!! I was in a large city in Florida sleeping couch at my sister's house. At about 3:30 in the morning, my nephew, Q, came in the door with another guy. We had dropped him off at work at 10 p.m. at a restaurant where he worked for a work meeting. Q said he would get a ride home with someone from work. When he came in the house with that guy, I figured it was his friend from work. I had awakened about 10 minutes before they got there.

The two guys moved a TV and came in and got drinks from the frig. I got up and went and chatted with both of them. We went into the front yard, then we were both coaxed into his car. I'm still thinking they are friends/work buddies at this point. He asks my nephew to get out for a minute, and so he did. He took off with me in the car. I said I didn't want to go anywhere and he said he was just going to the store. I had asked him if he worked with Q. He said yes. I asked how long he worked there, and he told me about a year and a half. He kept going farther, too fast for me, and I asked him to take me home. He kept saying he would, but I realized, he had no intention of taking me home.

My heart began racing. I called on Archangel Michael and Jesus. My intuition said at one point: "The farther you go the farther you will walk back." When I fully realized I was in danger, my instincts kicked in. I looked to the right and saw a motel. I looked ahead and we had slowed down for a red light, but then he was starting to accelerate again, when I jumped out of the car. It was moving, but I hit the pavement and jumped up and ran. I hid in some plants near the back of the motel near the pool. All doors were locked. I stayed in the plants for a long time. I thought I heard a car come through the parking lot. Finally, when I heard quiet for a long time, I gingerly walked around to the front of the hotel.

No phone. No shoes. Mulch hanging off my butt.

Nobody was at the front desk, but I knocked on the door that was partly open near it and a guy came out. I was shaking SO bad. He said I could only call local and I tried to look up my sister's or niece's phone number, but I could only get their addresses online. Finally, the guy let me call my son -- I knew his number but it was in Oregon so he had to let me use his cell phone. I got his voicemail. He did call back and looked up the numbers for me, but he didn't have them. Finally, he called back with one number, but suggested I call a taxi.

The hotel guy called a taxi service for me and got the price, but at first I said "no!" I was still shaking and couldn't think of getting into a car with a stranger again in a strange town. I did settle down a few minutes later and called the taxi.

When I got back to my sister's house, I pounded on Q's door. He got up and I said, "Do you know what your friend just did to me?!?" He said, that's not my friend, I just met him tonight at a bar!! I knew then, that my life was more in danger than I had realized. From what that guy said, he had very bad intentions.

That's the short story. When my goose egg on my head hurts, or my elbow, or my back/butt, I just thank God that that's all that happened and that I AM ALIVE!!!

Thank you, Archangel Michael. Thank God. Thank God. Thank God.

(I had been thinking about checking in, and when I got to my email, there was a message to change my password for this forum, so....PERFECT TIMING.)

Love to all,
Michelle Marie

[ulli]

I posted it into the Theories of the Deeper Understanding of Things, in case it is found to be too much for the Village....

Christian has been setting the tone on his TOTDUOT thread, so it would have fit perfectly there.
Meanwhile I wade through this stuff on Imgur all the time,
but since I find sexual humor rarely funny any more I leave it behind without a second glance.
But in this Village each and all can find their sal(i)vation in their own manner,
so I'm not too bothered unless it's downright vulgar or sexist and derogatory.

[ulli]

Wow! I'm alive to tell this true story. This just happened a few days ago (Thurs morning--flew back Friday morning). I still have the aches, bumps, scrapes, and bruises.

I'll catch up the rest of my life's changes later...I've been busy.

I WAS ABDUCTED!!!

...snip...


Love to all,
Michelle Marie

So it's a crazy world out there. Not that there haven't always been people with predatory intent,
but maybe there are more now than before.
And your nephew was not worried about you at all?

[ulli]

Now we are on page 1666. Injecting peaceful images purposely....

http://i.imgur.com/24ekOAHl.jpg

[Wind]

http://img5.visualizeus.com/thumbs/5f/2f/666,fail,funny,tshirt-5f2f05a4e42e6c19d705241b238ade07_h.jpg

[ulli]

Taking a break from cuddly cat gifs....it's time for cuddly otters.

http://i.imgur.com/RhLCvku.gif

[Ernie Nemeth]

Hey, where did you get that picture of me? I thought no one was watching!
Yup, that's me alright - to a tee. Pretty much sums up my idea of a good life. And that is how I swim, too. My own method, devised and patented by me. When others were doing their backstroke I was perfecting my otter imitation. Just at dinner we were watching that lady who swam from Cuba to Key West, Florida and I said how I could float for a week on my back but would probably drown in an hour if I tried to swim.

[Gekko]

I noticed that since my experience last Thursday, I've eaten virtually no grains, dairy, or processed sugars. Interesting. I usually love my carbs.

[ulli]

http://i.imgur.com/MbhyOVG.jpg

[Ernie Nemeth]

A thousand thank you's for my 10,000 thank you's! Makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

[heretogrow]

Michelle Marie,I wish you well after all you have been through. Stay strong my friend!

And to Ulli and Ernie, I otters go to bed now. Morning meditation with the GMO group comes fast!

Much love to all the dear souls in the village!
Julia

[skyflower]

As I was driving this afternoon, I got this overwhelming feeling, the kind that brings tears to your eyes, and a flooding of gratefulness. I got a glimpse of what it feels like to be alive. It's been happening quite often lately. There wasn't anything in particular that triggered it. Just zoning out while driving. But it was a welcome break from the angry energy I have been flooded with the past two weeks.

It's funny how I get most of my a-ha moments while driving..in LA traffic.

[Gekko]

A thousand thank you's for my 10,000 thank you's! Makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

Here, have some more upvotes.

http://img.pandawhale.com/29213-lol-upvote-gif-b3Ae.gif

Back to bed after a bout of nausea...

[Taurean]

It looks like the Gov't is at a pretty advanced stage with their Prepping !

Why isn't this stuff in museums ?

The presenters last sentence implies that museums are actively moving their exhibits to this base.


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[Gekko]

Avalon, the ragtag marching band

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[meeradas]

... just a matter of fine-tuning. Everything.

[Gekko]

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[heretogrow]

Here and now I am thinking of changing my avatar. It may be time to say goodbye to the pensive, little blue fairy with burnt wings. That is only one side of me. It may be good to express another...

[eaglespirit]

So Glad That You Are OK, Michelle Marie...good that You did what You did and reacted quickly!
My veterinarian Friend had that happen to Her in South America...and was able to "react quickly" as You did!
Be Safe...sending some 'calmness' Your Way!


Hi All...Wishing the Best and Highest Good to Everyone!!!
Been a bit busy...will check in tonite : )

[gripreaper]

Here and now I am thinking of changing my avatar. It may be time to say goodbye to the pensive, little blue fairy with burnt wings. That is only one side of me. It may be good to express another...

You know, I've been thinking about this too. Gripreaper means, for me, to "get a grip" on the truth for I reap what I sow, and the avatar picture is supposed to be a dragon, significant to my birth date and sun sign, but it looks more like a sea horse...

Just don't know, and have not been inspired as to what to change it to.

Any suggestions?

[heretogrow]

I am stuck in the same place Grip. I want a change but don't know what. I also can't for the life of me remember how to upload pictures. I am techie challenged that way. I like your avatar, btw!

[1inMany]

Well, today could be a day I get up and bust my arse and get this house clean. Or, it could be a day I go out and trim some branches and look around for a staff, maybe mow a little before the heat is unbearable. But, no. It appears it will be a day of recovering from frazzled nerves and very minor traumas.

Here and now, I set my intent to not judge myself harshly for taking time to do something I need to do, but something no one else will notice or value. Everything will be here tomorrow, unfortunately, and if I take time to breathe I will be better equipped to handle the next twists life offers. That is true, and I know it. So keeping the itchy, creeping guilt away...that is my focus.

Much Love,

[araucaria]

I'm taking post #33323 on my page 3333 thank you Ulli (ten posts per page) and leaving the big one for Dennis :)

[araucaria]

I am stuck in the same place Grip. I want a change but don't know what. I also can't for the life of me remember how to upload pictures. I am techie challenged that way. I like your avatar, btw!
Why don't you two just do a swap? :)

[PurpleLama]

I am stuck in the same place Grip. I want a change but don't know what. I also can't for the life of me remember how to upload pictures. I am techie challenged that way. I like your avatar, btw!

SETTINGS>>Edit Avatar>>Then you go to the top option to upload one from the computer, or the bottom one to post one from the net(find the image and right click and hit copy image location, then go back to the avalon window and paste into the blank, and click save at the bottom of the page)

Good luck!

[heretogrow]

Oops Too late, Araucaria. I didn't see this in time, but that would have been fun!!!

[meeradas]

Here and now I am thinking of changing my avatar. It may be time to say goodbye to the pensive, little blue fairy with burnt wings. That is only one side of me. It may be good to express another...

I looked at your avatar today [only couple of hours ago] and thought, "she should change that".
Strange?


... looks more like a sea horse...

It does [always thought it was one - maybe the fact that it isn't makes it unique, just like you are], but/ that's why, i wouldn't change it.
Up to you, of course.

[heretogrow]

Ha Ha Meeradas! So it was YOU who was sending me that subliminal message! Thank you my friend. This one will have to do for now until I can find a better one. It is a terrarium I made for a friend before she passed away in May.

It is in honor of her...

[araucaria]

Well actually, I rather liked the little blue fairy, maybe I should have said so

[ulli]

Ha Ha Meeradas! So it was YOU who was sending me that subliminal message! Thank you my friend. This one will have to do for now until I can find a better one. It is a terrarium I made for a friend before she passed away in May.

It is in honor of her...
Nice feedback here for you Meeradas. Good job.

By the way, Heretogrow, when you try to copy/paste a URL of a photo into the image window that pops up when you click on the image icon, above the edit box, be sure to erase the "http://" as the URL comes with its own "http://" already attached, and I believe it is because of this duplication that a lot of people get stuck when trying to post pictures.

Hope this makes sense.

[meeradas]

Doug turned 63 yesterday. Sixtythree.

All the best from here, Buddy!

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[Calz]

Well actually, I rather liked the little blue fairy, maybe I should have said so

http://www.tyden.cz/obrazek/201108/4e3a70a00b407/4e3a7239dd231-smoulove-3-udiv-u-zrcatka.jpg

[ulli]

Here and Now..in the car, husband is driving, my iPad is tethered to his phone, since mine lost its wi-fi capabilities.
So I took this photograph, one minute after leaving home, driving through the local coffee fields, and thanks to my photobucket app I could upload it easily... all in the moving, wobbly car.
Sounds like an ad, but so does all reporting when life is going well.


http://i1144.photobucket.com/albums/o491/orosivalleyjewelry/215ad19717296af99804a8b6c062ba1e_zpsf802d8f9.jpg

[1inMany]

Okay, this breathing and relaxing thing isn't happening. So, I googled calm...thought I would post something soothing. Who in their right minds would think that this is calm? If I saw this with my own eyes, it wouldn't be good.

http://asucalm.com/img/slideshow/CALM-plane.jpg

Here, now, this is more like it. This is more what I had in mind.

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT4KI1IjPdnAkJdyDc5len1BKbjutTz4cGc12ZqYUDqHRIOKz0v

Phew. Calm. In...out...relaaaxxxx...

Ahhhhh. Much Love,

[Calz]

Here and Now..in the car, husband is driving, my iPad is tethered to his phone, since mine lost its wi-fi capabilities.

So I took this photograph, one minute after leaving home, driving through the local coffee fields, and thanks to my photobucket app I could upload it easily... all in the moving, wobbly car.

Sounds like an ad, but so does all reporting when life is going well.


http://i1144.photobucket.com/albums/o491/orosivalleyjewelry/215ad19717296af99804a8b6c062ba1e_zpsf802d8f9.jpg

Ironic is it not?

In L.A. those would be disquised wifi towers ... but I digress ...

[CD7]

Ring around the sun earlier!....but next time I looked up it was so FOGGED out by none other then planes flying right overhead in front of the sun....HOE HUMMMMMMM :( Geez what is it about up there? hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[heretogrow]

Thank you araucaria! I have several prints in storage so I will have to look to see if I still have some of that work. If I have a copy and you give me your address I will mail it to you. I'll check and then send you a pm if I can find it ok.

I don't like my prints to be in storage. They need a good home!

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Congrats to the Village! I was really happy to see Ulli got the 33,333 post.

I loved the savyy and assuredness this cat has, rubbing up against the side of his personal cat elevator: http://www.wimp.com/personalelevator/

Also, i came across a very interesting article regarding Spanish explorers documenting a tribe of Irish descent in South Carolina in the 1500s. The main evidence, which is linguistic, is at the end of the article.: http://www.examiner.com/article/490-year-old-spanish-documents-describe-an-irish-province-south-carolina

[donk]

Here and now I am thinking of changing my avatar. It may be time to say goodbye to the pensive, little blue fairy with burnt wings. That is only one side of me. It may be good to express another...

You know, I've been thinking about this too. Gripreaper means, for me, to "get a grip" on the truth for I reap what I sow, and the avatar picture is supposed to be a dragon, significant to my birth date and sun sign, but it looks more like a sea horse...

Just don't know, and have not been inspired as to what to change it to.

Any suggestions?

I suggest Space Ghost

[Calz]

Any suggestions?

I suggest Space Ghost


So very yesterday ... falls flat without the avatar ...



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[Calz]

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[1inMany]

This made me chuckle. Sometimes I have to shake my head at what is reported. Since when does growing marijuana start fires? Are you kidding me? Hahahahahahaha What was it doing, smoking itself and it dropped the lighter?


Pot-growing operation may have sparked Rim fire, local chief says
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-rim-fire-20130904,0,4106641.story



(oh, geez, not laughing at the fire, nor the damage, nor what actually caused it, nor the loss of homes, etc., etc., etc.)

[TargeT]

random act of kindness..... awesome

http://i.imgur.com/WQfPX8q.jpg

[Gekko]

PFRD

(Portable Frequency Raising Device)

http://img1.targetimg1.com/wcsstore/TargetSAS//img/p/13/78/13781978_120628224927.jpg

[Gekko]

A measure of peace is coming in to balance the mania

Tears of joy will stream down my face...

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[bbj3n546pt]

Don’t Talk to the Police – Applies to U.S.A. Only

You may find this 49 minute video to have valuable information.

Regent Law Professor James Duane gives compelling reasons why you should always exercise your 5th Amendment rights when questioned by government officials. At 26:50 he is followed by Officer George Bruch of the Virginia Beach, VA, police department (he has a 98% conviction rate) who describes police techniques he uses to get convictions; he reinforces why you should not talk to the police.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

[bel]

random act of kindness..... awesome

http://i.imgur.com/WQfPX8q.jpg

This is great TargeT!

Have you seen this brilliant little video? So heart warming :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYRS4FQXZrk

[Gekko]

We WILL escape this matrix

No one left behind

Hold the line

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The waypoints have been there all along...

[Dennis Leahy]

I'm taking post #33323 on my page 3333 thank you Ulli (ten posts per page) and leaving the big one for Dennis :)By 44,4444 I want the Earth healed and all humans working on learning how to live in harmony.

Is that too much to ask?

Actually, I won't just ask, I'll create the intention...

Dennis

[Ernie Nemeth]

I really like that little lady playing the violin. She's so talented, and such a cutie.

[Gekko]

I really like that little lady playing the violin. She's so talented, and such a cutie.

This is her story:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865578461/Hip-hop-violinist-Lindsey-Stirling-overcomes-anorexia-critics-to-find-happiness-success.html?pg=all

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

I'm taking post #33323 on my page 3333 thank you Ulli (ten posts per page) and leaving the big one for Dennis :)By 44,4444 I want the Earth healed and all humans working on learning how to live in harmony.

Is that too much to ask?

Actually, I won't just ask, I'll create the intention...

Dennis

I'll be happy to co-create that with you, Dennis.

¤=[Post Update]=¤

Just read this article. LIbya is now producing only a fraction of its oil as it did formerly and is mired in chaos. Incidental?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/special-report-we-all-thought-libya-had-moved-on--it-has-but-into-lawlessness-and-ruin-8797041.html

[gripreaper]

HA! Finally, someone figured out how to forecast the weather!

https://sphotos-b-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/554506_645770498781530_1875859298_n.jpg

[Carmody]

So Glad That You Are OK, Michelle Marie...good that You did what You did and reacted quickly!
My veterinarian Friend had that happen to Her in South America...and was able to "react quickly" as You did!
Be Safe...sending some 'calmness' Your Way!


Hi All...Wishing the Best and Highest Good to Everyone!!!
Been a bit busy...will check in tonite : )

Stories like that, send my heartbeat out of control. Not from fear, or anger, or to ease the soul that is dying, to help it leave. There is other work, one might say, but, well...not my job. But still. What ease, to bring to the wicked? To approach the dead, to find them. A form, at times, of the Grim Reaper, one might say.

As.... I found out recently that both my matriarchal and patriarchal names mean virtually the same. Not just the sheltering of the door and that which removes the smoke to expose the light of the forge, to aid in it's energies, but.... the doorway though which the dead must pass to reach the godhead (also related to the boatman, one might say). Most judge themselves. Who decides? Not I.

[gripreaper]

I really like that little lady playing the violin. She's so talented, and such a cutie.

This is her story:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865578461/Hip-hop-violinist-Lindsey-Stirling-overcomes-anorexia-critics-to-find-happiness-success.html?pg=all

It's refreshing when the right brain creative feminine, with strong fire energy emerges in the upcoming generation, stepping outside the box.

It is this combination of elements which will lead us out of the patriarchal paradigm and into the new paradigm.

[araucaria]

I'm taking post #33323 on my page 3333 thank you Ulli (ten posts per page) and leaving the big one for Dennis :)By 44,4444 I want the Earth healed and all humans working on learning how to live in harmony.

Is that too much to ask?

Actually, I won't just ask, I'll create the intention...

Dennis
Let's put a timescale on this. At the present rate of posting, that deadline would be the fourth of July next year or thereabouts. That's plenty of time.

¤=[Post Update]=¤


HA! Finally, someone figured out how to forecast the weather!

https://sphotos-b-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/554506_645770498781530_1875859298_n.jpg
Not too much advance warning though. I wonder what it means when you get blood out of the stone?

[CD7]

Not too much advance warning though. I wonder what it means when you get blood out of the stone?




It means then u look up because pigs are flying :flypig:

[araucaria]

Not too much advance warning though. I wonder what it means when you get blood out of the stone?




It means then u look up because pigs are flying :flypig:
Very good. But if you look up, you get bloodshot eyes. Like a camera flash.

[ulli]

[/COLOR]
HA! Finally, someone figured out how to forecast the weather!

https://sphotos-b-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/554506_645770498781530_1875859298_n.jpg
Not too much advance warning though. I wonder what it means when you get blood out of the stone?

That means someone replaced their bleeding heart for a heart of stone.
Just look at it dangling there...an upside down heart.

[yukondiva]

Brrr it's getting chilly. I believe my last post was involved in the recent hacking. So basically, hi everyone. Hope all is well and that everyone is safe and happy! Just watching the seasons change. love to all

[Michelle Marie]

Wow! I'm alive to tell this true story. This just happened a few days ago (Thurs morning--flew back Friday morning). I still have the aches, bumps, scrapes, and bruises.

I'll catch up the rest of my life's changes later...I've been busy.

I WAS ABDUCTED!!!

...snip...


Love to all,
Michelle Marie


And your nephew was not worried about you at all?

He was not worried at the time; he felt bad afterwards.

I'm still processing all of this. I can say that I feel like I've been activated in a sense. My perceptions around the purpose of the experience and what it means for my life and life purpose are becoming ever more clear. The higher purpose will be served and ultimately this is a victory for the Light.

Lots of love,
Michelle

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

I'm taking post #33323 on my page 3333 thank you Ulli (ten posts per page) and leaving the big one for Dennis :)By 44,4444 I want the Earth healed and all humans working on learning how to live in harmony.

Is that too much to ask?

Actually, I won't just ask, I'll create the intention...

Dennis
Let's put a timescale on this. At the present rate of posting, that deadline would be the fourth of July next year or thereabouts. That's plenty of time.

¤=[Post Update]=¤


HA! Finally, someone figured out how to forecast the weather!

https://sphotos-b-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/554506_645770498781530_1875859298_n.jpg
Not too much advance warning though. I wonder what it means when you get blood out of the stone?

That reminds me of this recent comic:

http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/2013-08-20/index.html

[ulli]

Brrr it's getting chilly. I believe my last post was involved in the recent hacking. So basically, hi everyone. Hope all is well and that everyone is safe and happy! Just watching the seasons change. love to all

I've been ready busy lately, but remember vaguely that Paul sent me some of the lost posts, so here is one where I replied to yours.




Here and now talking to my wonderful friend in Costa Rica Ulli. How I have missed her advice. Now watching each day as summer gives way to fall. Here in Alaska we have long summers, long winters, a very short spring, and fall. You know winter is on the way when fire weed a beautiful pink flowered plant blooms to the top, then it releases large poofy seed pods and turns red like fire. Then you notice a yellow leaf here and one there. The first termination dust ( a slight powdering of snow that indicates the termination, as in summer is over) touches the tops of the mountains.

The garden slows to a crawl. We can, dry, dehydrate and smoke our summer bounty, salmon,pike,cod,trout and halibut from the river and sea, every vegetable that can be pickled, and jams with wild berries of huckleberry, blueberry, high and low brush cranberry, crow berry, and strawberry.The state fair comes and goes and we prepare for another winter. Four wheelers and motorcycles are put away and snow machines and snow blowers come out.

And though the world outside my slice of heaven heaves and boils. I see and listen to the changing of the seasons and I know our world and humanity has it's changing seasons too.

This post will make Target homesick, right, Target?

[Ernie Nemeth]

22681

Max has decided that its time to do some childhood clearing. He's suddenly taken to his shoe box again. He barely fits but it is right by my side and he sleeps for hours while I plug away at the typewriter. Isn't he cute?

Umm, please excuse the walls. I swear they don't look so bad in ambient light, the flash did it!

[ulli]

22681

Max has decided that its time to do some childhood clearing. He's suddenly taken to his shoe box again. He barely fits but it is right by my side and he sleeps for hours while I plug away at the typewriter. Isn't he cute?

Umm, please excuse the walls. I swear they don't look so bad in ambient light, the flash did it!

Yesterday we spent our first $ to buy #2 aluminum cable...95 m. Got a nice discount, too, which means our project is starting on the right foot.
Wishing Ernie was here, to give us advice.

Silvio, my Nicaraguan gardener, a 23-year old Aquarian, has been in our good books lately,
and so we are sponsoring his education. I asked him what he would like to study and he said electricity.
Which was of course the perfect reply, as the sign of Aquarius governs electricity.
He is enrolling in an electrician's training course tomorrow.
He just left here, and is so pleased that we are picking up his happy vibes, and I'm now passing them on to you all.
I want you, Ernie, to send special blessings to Silvio...being an electrician yourself.

It is his dream, and has been since childhood, to become an electrician.

[Ernie Nemeth]

I will include him in my meditation tonite, thank you.

And if you need advice, you know where I am. Too bad I can't just get on a plane and come do the work for you. # 2 Awg aluminum - 100 amp, 240 volt supply, then?

[ulli]

I will include him in my meditation tonite, thank you.

And if you need advice, you know where I am. Too bad I can't just get on a plane and come do the work for you. # 2 Awg aluminum - 100 amp, 240 volt supply, then?

That's right, but we only use 240 V for our electric oven and the dryer, neither of which get much use.
Silvio's elder brother will install it for us... needs 4 poles to reach from the meter at the gate to the garage where we will have the main switch.
At first we thought of laying it underground, for esthetic reasons, but that worked out too expensive.
I will have the poles painted olive green, so they blend in with nature. Will send pics when done.

[Ernie Nemeth]

100 amps is plenty for any home - unless you're living in a mansion with seventeen bathrooms or some such extravagance. Yes, burying the incoming supply is always more expensive...

[Benevolent Bear]

;) A big HELLO from BB (Benevolent Bear) love the Village ;)

[ruthy]

Here I am in Southern Mexico, an expat from Brooklyn new york, a little homesick.. its been raining and raining and raining non-stop, it feels like fall outside, the weather has been so very strange, here, there, all over the planet... my plants on my patio are all drowning, I wish I had planted moss or water lillies, i'd be having much better results.. My kitten, Caligula or Cali the destroyer, is in my lap, she does not budge, she uses me for my lap warmth, i'm amazed at how she can sleep with her legs sticking up around her ears and her head resting on her own belly....the space heater is humming behind me, yes a heater in mexico, i told you the weather has been strange, and i live in an old mill that was converted into a house, it was meant to keep cool year round to store grains. Good news is I don't need a refrigerator, bad news is I'm all layers all the time.... my blue nose pitbull is snoring on the floor between my feet and those of my fiance. My fiance, Al, is on his laptop listening to a documentary on prison violence on the rise while reading news on the latest on the situation in Syria....

[ulli]

;) A big HELLO from BB (Benevolent Bear) love the Village ;)

Welcome BB. Long ago there was a Villager called Benevolent Crow, but she left to open an antiques shop in a 3 D Village.
She is still missed. Anyone who has a benevolent name is very welcome here, indeed.

[ruthy]

I saw this, and yes as a new yorker, never ever evvverrrr talk to the police.

[ulli]

I saw this, and yes as a new yorker, never ever evvverrrr talk to the police.

Welcome ruthy, to the perfect escape from expat land. We will warm you up here in no time.
Costa Rica is cold now as well, but my husband keeps telling me this is nothing compared to Mexico where he froze his butt off while studying.

[eaglespirit]

NO more wars...
NO more wars...
NO more wars!!!

[Benevolent Bear]

It has been a quiet day today. Worked in my garden, way behind schedule due to a broken arm in March. Playing catch up in the hear and now! Such soaring souls reside in the Village! I am honored and humbled to be a part of this fine place!

[ulli]

Humble one just started a thread about the size of the universe. Just as I had been posting something about the complexities of the microcosm.
And it prompted me to search for a long lost favorite picture of mine....
Found it. It scientific proof that we are all nothing more than a neuron inside a mouse's brain.

http://www.exohuman.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/neuron-galaxy.jpg

[heretogrow]

Welcome! Two new faces, Benevolent Bear and ruthy! You will find ulli is a most gracious hostess in this village. There are so many great people here! I know you will feel most welcome and warm!

It is nice to meet you!

I haven't been here long myself, I came out of a long break from posting most recently. But I checked in here to see how everyone was doing everyday. This is where friendships form and love and support is handed out generously.

You are in the right place! A place I am very thankful for,

Lots of Love,
Julia

[Guest]

Wow! I'm alive to tell this true story. This just happened a few days ago (Thurs morning--flew back Friday morning). I still have the aches, bumps, scrapes, and bruises.

I'll catch up the rest of my life's changes later...I've been busy.

I WAS ABDUCTED!!!

...snip...


Love to all,
Michelle Marie


And your nephew was not worried about you at all?

He was not worried at the time; he felt bad afterwards.

I'm still processing all of this. I can say that I feel like I've been activated in a sense. My perceptions around the purpose of the experience and what it means for my life and life purpose are becoming ever more clear. The higher purpose will be served and ultimately this is a victory for the Light.

Lots of love,
Michelle


Glad you are still alive Michelle Marie thanks to your quick thinking. Scary.

The last few days you were on my mind and wondered where's Michelle Marie? Hope she is okay.

I took a few weeks off from the forum and still need to read about 40 pages of the village.


Wishing you healing, peace and blessings.


Love


Nora

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

I love this. These are amazing photographs of a jaguar catching and swimming off with a caiman crocodile. I wonder what the final outcome was....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/05/jaguar-attacks-caiman-brazil-photos_n_3874468.html

[Ernie Nemeth]

Cats are unpredictable, and deadly - heck, they're armed to the teeth, literally.

[Calz]

For my two sons ...

k75YWKvimfI

[Calz]

http://thepresidentoftheunitedstates.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Funny-Obama.jpg

[ulli]

Been randomly browsing Avalon (if is there such a thing as 'randomly') and found this gem.
Food for thought.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m56nkvMS0H1rvcjd7o1_500.jpg

[thunder24]

after seeing this image... I went outside last night to look at the stars...when I came back.... I watched a video on ISON and low and behold this mouse brain neuron network with its universal partner image was in the video...

i find that image fascinating...

goodmorniing

peace



Humble one just started a thread about the size of the universe. Just as I had been posting something about the complexities of the microcosm.
And it prompted me to search for a long lost favorite picture of mine....
Found it. It scientific proof that we are all nothing more than a neuron inside a mouse's brain.

http://www.exohuman.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/neuron-galaxy.jpg

[ulli]

after seeing this image... I went outside last night to look at the stars...when I came back.... I watched a video on ISON and low and behold this mouse brain neuron network with its universal partner image was in the video...

i find that image fascinating...

goodmorniing

peace



Humble one just started a thread about the size of the universe. Just as I had been posting something about the complexities of the microcosm.
And it prompted me to search for a long lost favorite picture of mine....
Found it. It scientific proof that we are all nothing more than a neuron inside a mouse's brain.

http://www.exohuman.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/neuron-galaxy.jpg

And to me the synchronicity with the video is even more fascinating than the picture...because of what it tells about you, being in the middle of a light storm, here and now.
Great stuff, Thunder.
When your cycle hits another dark night of the soul, or test period, which it will most likely do again, remember this synchronicity.
It will remind you that you ARE the universe, not a mouse.

[Gekko]

Been randomly browsing Avalon (if is there such a thing as 'randomly') and found this gem.
Food for thought.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m56nkvMS0H1rvcjd7o1_500.jpg

Holy cow. Every one of these came up and gave me a good poke :p

This guy knew what he was talking about...

[1inMany]

What to do when there is unnecessary suffering and cruelty? Kick ass and facilitate healing. Here and now, doing both.

Much Love,

[ulli]

Been meaning to share this for a while.
Being in a state of wonder, despite the hardships of life, is where it's at.

The Valley of Wonderment...from "The Seven Valleys of Baha'u'llah"

After journeying through the planes of pure contentment, the traveler cometh to

THE VALLEY OF WONDERMENT

and is tossed in the oceans of grandeur, and at every moment his wonder groweth.
Now he seeth the shape of wealth as poverty itself, and the essence of freedom as sheer impotence.
Now is he struck dumb with the beauty of the All-Glorious; again is he wearied out with his own life.

How many a mystic tree hath this whirlwind of wonderment snatched by the roots, how many a soul hath it exhausted.

For in this Valley the traveler is flung into confusion, albeit, in the eye of him who hath attained,
such marvels are esteemed and well beloved.
At every moment he beholdeth a wondrous world, a new creation, and goeth from astonishment to astonishment, and is lost in awe at the works of the Lord of Oneness.

Indeed, O Brother, if we ponder each created thing, we shall witness a myriad perfect wisdoms and learn a myriad new and wondrous truths.

One of the created phenomena is the dream. Behold how many secrets are deposited therein, how many wisdoms treasured up, how many worlds concealed.
Observe, how thou art asleep in a dwelling, and its doors are barred; on a sudden thou findest thyself in a far-off city,
which thou enterest without moving thy feet or wearying thy body;
without using thine eyes, thou seest; without taxing thine ears, thou hearest; without a tongue, thou speakest.

And perchance when ten years are gone, thou wilt witness in the outer world the very things thou hast dreamed tonight.

Now there are many wisdoms to ponder in the dream, which none but the people of this Valley can comprehend in their true elements.

First, what is this world, where without eye and ear and hand and tongue a man puts all of these to use?

Second, how is it that in the outer world thou seest today the effect of a dream,
when thou didst vision it in the world of sleep some ten years past?

Consider the difference between these two worlds and the mysteries which they conceal,
that thou mayest attain to divine confirmations and heavenly discoveries and enter the regions of holiness.

[ulli]

Found an ancient post on Carmen's Lightbulb thread.
Funny lightbulb astrology, with quite a bit of truth in there somewhere.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?28304-How-many-Forum-Members-does-it-take-to-Change-a-Light-Bulb&p=287986&viewfull=1#post287986

Re: How many Forum Members does it take to Change a Light Bulb?
and at least one astrologer who says we mustn't forget the astrology light bulb angle:



ARIES: Just one. Wanna make something of it?

TAURUS: Well, I prefer natural light if at all possible. Are you absolutely positive that lightbulb is burned out? I hate to throw it away if it still might be useful.

GEMINI: Probably one is best, because if there are more than one, they'll get so wrapped up in talking to each other that they'll forget all about the lightbulb.

CANCER: Only one, but three therapists will be needed to help with the grieving process. OR: Only one, as long as his mommy holds his hand.

LEO: Leos do not change their own lightbulbs. They find someone else to do it for them.

VIRGO: 1.11111119873, give or take .00000000000013%.

LIBRA: Well, I could do it, unless of course you'd prefer to do it, but you look sort of busy right now. What do you want to do?

SCORPIO: One, from across the room, if they've learned their teleporting lessons well enough.
OR, thanks to one of our website visitors: None, because Scorpios aren't afraid of the dark.

SAGITTARIUS: The sun is shining, the day is young, we've got the rest of our lives ahead of us and you're worrying about a stupid light bulb?

CAPRICORN: I don't have time for these foolish jokes.

AQUARIUS: Well, you see, energy is really matter and matter is really energy and light is a form of energy but the light bulb is matter, and--

PISCES: What light bulb?

[ruthy]

Ha! I know it's crazy here! To go further on strange weather, the indigenous groups here where I live are very aware of the changes in our weather. They said the weather started getting really strange here as of 3 years ago. Rainy seasons start earlier, last longer, are colder and wetter.

Anyways, thanks for the welcome message , it made my morning :D



I saw this, and yes as a new yorker, never ever evvverrrr talk to the police.

Welcome ruthy, to the perfect escape from expat land. We will warm you up here in no time.
Costa Rica is cold now as well, but my husband keeps telling me this is nothing compared to Mexico where he froze his butt off while studying.

[ruthy]

It's pretty quiet here, except for the heater humming, my dog snoring, still. My leg is stinging from my kitten that slipped from my lap and used her claws to maintain her grip on my calf. Morning birds chattering in the distance, they sound like weeble wobbles, distant diesel engines tugging up the hill where I live in the mountain side. New constructions happening further up from us. Leaky faucet leaking into the dirty dishes stacked precariously in the sink. Each drip is a constant reminder that I haven't done them yet, nor do I plan to until the hour of double digits has arrived! Fiance is still in bed, I can never sleep in like he does, I'm up with the sun, or when the dogs whine to go outside. As soon as my feet hit the cold adobe brick floors..I'm up!!
My tea, which is my life force, next to me getting cold. Considering putting it in front of the space heater right behind me as a quick warm up because I don't want to move to the kitchen.

[Benevolent Bear]

Woke up to over an 1" of rain that fell last night. News said over 5000 lighting strikes. I was oblivious to it all as I slept. Not to say I did not wake up a few times in the middle of the night. For some reason I can't post a photo of my pond? I keep getting a air message to enter a web address, well it is on my desktop. Go figure! It took me four weeks to dig the pond by hand. Pick ax, mattocks, shovel. Was a great work out routine. I had a lot of water in it this morning:o

[ulli]

Woke up to over an 1" of rain that fell last night. News said over 5000 lighting strikes. I was oblivious to it all as I slept. Not to say I did not wake up a few times in the middle of the night. For some reason I can't post a photo of my pond? I keep getting a air message to enter a web address, well it is on my desktop. Go figure! It took me four weeks to dig the pond by hand. Pick ax, mattocks, shovel. Was a great work out routine. I had a lot of water in it this morning:o

This is what you can do.
Instead of the normal "quick reply" click on the "Go Advanced" button. This will open an edit page where there is an icon (amongst the normal edit icons) that looks like a paperclip. When clicking on this icon you will open a small window called "Uploader" (part of Avalon's niftiness )

This allows you to upload a picture from your computer. Just follow the dialogue boxes.
The other thing you could do is have a web photo album, from where you can upload more easily, as it provides you with an URL for each picture.

[PurpleLama]

Woke up to over an 1" of rain that fell last night. News said over 5000 lighting strikes. I was oblivious to it all as I slept. Not to say I did not wake up a few times in the middle of the night. For some reason I can't post a photo of my pond? I keep getting a air message to enter a web address, well it is on my desktop. Go figure! It took me four weeks to dig the pond by hand. Pick ax, mattocks, shovel. Was a great work out routine. I had a lot of water in it this morning:o

Hit go advanced, and click on the icon that looks like a paper clip, it will launch the uploader so you can post something on your computer. The little picture frame only is good for posting pics linked to on the net.

ulli beat me to it, with better directions :)

[Benevolent Bear]

Maybe because I am a provisional member I am not allowed to all of the niftiness. In time. Thanks Ulli

[PurpleLama]

Maybe because I am a provisional member I am not allowed to all of the niftiness. In time. Thanks Ulli
You only have 4 more posts to go....

[Cristian]

avatar suggestion :P :

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9Sadhwe5Hp4/UVlP8uEXAlI/AAAAAAAAHKA/_FAlNLMA_Z4/s320/teddy+bear.jpg

[ulli]

Our new bridge:

http://i1144.photobucket.com/albums/o491/orosivalleyjewelry/IMG_0183_zps9a78aef6.jpg

[1inMany]

I'm thinking it's time for a new avatar too. You know what this one says to me? It says, "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm not sure I heard you correctly. Did you say you want to fck with my children?"

http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/19200000/Warrior-angel-fantasy-19272822-500-375.jpg

Oh dear, I think I'm making Maxine look pretty tame. I had better pull this in a little, lest someone close by be seared.

[PurpleLama]

Thank Universe for newly rebuilt bridges being open!

[1inMany]

Oh, here we go. This is more tame, hmm?

http://cache.desktopnexus.com/thumbnails/1151037-bigthumbnail.jpg

[Cristian]

I'm thinking it's time for a new avatar too. You know what this one says to me? It says, "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm not sure I heard you correctly. Did you say you want to fck with my children?"


http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/9940/ruua.jpg


Hmm...do you think she would date a mortal men?

[amandapoet]

after seeing this image... I went outside last night to look at the stars...when I came back.... I watched a video on ISON and low and behold this mouse brain neuron network with its universal partner image was in the video...

i find that image fascinating...

goodmorniing

peace



Humble one just started a thread about the size of the universe. Just as I had been posting something about the complexities of the microcosm.
And it prompted me to search for a long lost favorite picture of mine....
Found it. It scientific proof that we are all nothing more than a neuron inside a mouse's brain.

http://www.exohuman.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/neuron-galaxy.jpg

And to me the synchronicity with the video is even more fascinating than the picture...because of what it tells about you, being in the middle of a light storm, here and now.
Great stuff, Thunder.
When your cycle hits another dark night of the soul, or test period, which it will most likely do again, remember this synchronicity.
It will remind you that you ARE the universe, not a mouse.

Thanks Village for the current discussion-- It's a perspective I'm very much needing to be reminded of at the moment. And exactly the reason I found my way here to begin with ;)

~Amanda

[1inMany]

@ Cristian...um.........no.

Made me laugh, but she wouldn't and I know because she is me, I am she. In a manner of speaking.

[Carmody]

September is Here Again.

GvFVbEHHhmI

[Benevolent Bear]

No paper clip for me (3 more post;))

[ulli]

Stuff is happening. Good stuff. People fighting back against corruption.

Very inspiring video here.

http://www.upworthy.com/a-bunch-of-young-geniuses-just-made-a-corrupt-corporation-freak-out-big-time-time-for-round





A Bunch Of Young Geniuses Just Made A Corrupt Corporation Freak Out Big Time. Time For Round Two.

When you've got giant energy companies this scared, you must be doing something right. At 3:38, I snorted. Just sayin'. And at 4:43, he explains brilliantly what's in it for you.


Adam Mordecai

[Carmody]

7ISNRr9BE5o

BTW, this album is a Pisces. (February 28th, 1994)

[ulli]

I'm thinking it's time for a new avatar too. You know what this one says to me? It says, "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm not sure I heard you correctly. Did you say you want to fck with my children?"


http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/9940/ruua.jpg


Hmm...do you think she would date a mortal men?

The immortal men I know would walk past her without batting an eyelid...
instantly recognizing the manipulative energy that created her.
This is casino level "beauty".
There are better feminine avatars worth drooling over.

[yukondiva]

Our new bridge:

http://i1144.photobucket.com/albums/o491/orosivalleyjewelry/IMG_0183_zps9a78aef6.jpg

I will miss that old bridge with the holes in it but so happy that it's stabilized. Nothing like riding a bus to the bridge getting out walking over the bridge and getting on another bus...ahhhh Will be there soon enough to see with my own eyes

[ulli]

I was searching just now for an image of a female warrior archetype.
More like wading through a swamp.

I realize that true feminine strength is hidden, behind a veil.
It will always be that way.

In the process I found something amusing but at the same time saddening.
Ghaddafi's security team were all Amazon women.
Didn't do him much good, as he ended up getting lynched.

But he did say that women should be trained for combat, so they don't fall prey to their enemies.

http://laughterizer.weebly.com/uploads/5/0/9/8/5098219/9272576.jpg?428

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-KrcV2IhOYM/R94N-TcwsrI/AAAAAAAAAWg/V_FpJjOR3cE/s400/Gaddafi%27s+Women+3.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fa_wZoLSubc/TWLXpoyGIrI/AAAAAAAAAZg/ofReMA8acHc/s1600/women101207_468x392.jpg

[1inMany]

Agree with you, Ulli. None of the images I find ever do justice for the side of me I intend to represent, at any given time.

[Guest]

22709


22710

I need a tropical hotdog night


Ulli, hoping to cross your new bridge one day


Love


Nora

[ulli]

22709


22710

I need a tropical hotdog night


Ulli, hoping to cross your new bridge one day


Love


Nora

Just hop in your car and drive down. Keep following the Pan American Highway signs south.
I'm only 10 miles off of it.

[Michelle Marie]

Wow! I'm alive to tell this true story. This just happened a few days ago (Thurs morning--flew back Friday morning). I still have the aches, bumps, scrapes, and bruises.

I'll catch up the rest of my life's changes later...I've been busy.

I WAS ABDUCTED!!!

...snip...


Love to all,
Michelle Marie


And your nephew was not worried about you at all?

He was not worried at the time; he felt bad afterwards.

I'm still processing all of this. I can say that I feel like I've been activated in a sense. My perceptions around the purpose of the experience and what it means for my life and life purpose are becoming ever more clear. The higher purpose will be served and ultimately this is a victory for the Light.

Lots of love,
Michelle


Glad you are still alive Michelle Marie thanks to your quick thinking. Scary.

The last few days you were on my mind and wondered where's Michelle Marie? Hope she is okay.

I took a few weeks off from the forum and still need to read about 40 pages of the village.


Wishing you healing, peace and blessings.


Love


Nora

Thanks, Nora! I was off the forum for several weeks/months (?) due to Internet availability and intense rapid life changes and challenges. I hope to catch up some now, even though I'm still looking toward more changes.

I know we are all feeling the effects of these earth and consciousness changes. Our united energies are helping to create this positive shift. In a large part by supporting each other, and in other ways by sharing information and positive intentions. The healing from this forum is more than amazing.

I send lots of healing love and brilliant new light energy to all of you!!!

Love,
Michelle Marie

[Gekko]

Well... it would've been nice, eh?

sUrJdsN_-B0

[Benevolent Bear]

Sun is shinning, birds are singing, I have to pick up my chain saw. The rip cord broke off an easy start. Have tall skinny cedar trees to cut down for my tipi, tepee, teepee greenhouse. :cool::humble::hippie:

[Dennis Leahy]

Very, very difficult to leave my garden today. It felt so good to be there.

Watered, weeded, harvested (basil, tomatoes, cucumbers, kale, lettuce, beets, broccoli) and ate a little bit of fresh stuff (carrots, and tomatoes.) I so wish I could share the experience with all of you - with all of humanity. For a few hours (not from suppressing any thoughts, but rather from being immersed), there was no government, no wars, no starvation, no homelessness, no oppression, no suffering - only abundance.

I think it is good to stop and consciously focus on this feeling, to better articulate that which I would like to spread outward until the entire Earth and all her inhabitants know this feeling.

Dennis

[gripreaper]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/45028_357954744336104_2081475874_n.png

[ulli]

I thought this was appropriate today:

Whenever I look at the pattern in my carpet.....

http://i.imgur.com/t0nHWSK.jpg?1

[donk]

That thing is damn cute, they run around Costa Rica?

[ulli]

That thing is damn cute, they run around Costa Rica?

Sloths.
They don't run, ever, but glide. Actually, they can get up to some speed, considering how slow their movements are.
I took this picture in my sister-in-law's garden.

http://i1144.photobucket.com/albums/o491/orosivalleyjewelry/Sloth1_zps9831845e.jpg

¤=[Post Update]=¤

Oh my, a 6.5 in Chiapas, Mexico.
That's where ruthy is living.
I hope she is ok.

[donk]

Sweet! They don't make good pets though, I bet

Ness' told me how her people in Ecuador, the uptown class, put everything in a cage down there, little monkeys and squirrels and such. She said at the grocery or wherever as a prize for the kids they gave away baby chicks they dyed bright colors

So what happened when they grew up, you had a bunch of chickens running around? You couldn't eat your pet could you?

No we just let them go.


...same with the monkeys or anything that peed on them or they got tired of.

It has been quite an undertaking in teaching her my standards of responsibility of "owning" a pet (that's technically what it is, but to me, it is adding a member to the family)

[ulli]

What can I say?

Is this mind-control, or what?

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/09/g20-ends-abruptly-as-obama-calls-putin-a-jackass.html?mobify=0

[Benevolent Bear]

Very, very difficult to leave my garden today. It felt so good to be there.

Watered, weeded, harvested (basil, tomatoes, cucumbers, kale, lettuce, beets, broccoli) and ate a little bit of fresh stuff (carrots, and tomatoes.) I so wish I could share the experience with all of you - with all of humanity. For a few hours (not from suppressing any thoughts, but rather from being immersed), there was no government, no wars, no starvation, no homelessness, no oppression, no suffering - only abundance.

I think it is good to stop and consciously focus on this feeling, to better articulate that which I would like to spread outward until the entire Earth and all her inhabitants know this feeling.

Dennis


Thank you for this, you are speaking to my heart! If only this feeling could be bundle up and tied with a big bow and given freely, this world would be a better place.

[Nat_Lee]

I had a headache soooooooooooooo bad !!!
I have meditated on love to all that exist on earth but my heart, my center was full of resistances....
I think I feel the anxiety of the world ....
Hard today to have focus .....
It, will be better tomorrow !
I keep positive !
Love to you all !
NatLee

[ulli]

Flowers made of sugar, as cake toppings.
This is one of those reminders: are you going to have your cake, or are you going to eat it?

http://i.imgur.com/gG9J5ttl.jpg

¤=[Post Update]=¤


I had a headache soooooooooooooo bad !!!
I have meditated on love to all that exist on earth but my heart, my center was full of resistances....
I think I feel the anxiety of the world ....
Hard today to have focus .....
It, will be better tomorrow !
I keep positive !
Love to you all !
NatLee

Nat_Lee, I hope you are feeling better.
Your headache coincided with the arrival of a sun flare, if Im not mistaken.

[spiritwind]

What can I say?

Is this mind-control, or what?

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/09/g20-ends-abruptly-as-obama-calls-putin-a-jackass.html?mobify=0

Thank you so much for the early morning laugh! My sleep schedule is all messed up so I'm up for no apparent reason. Laughter is always good. I always wonder how these politicians actually talk to each other away from the public eye, and I can only imagine what they don't say that they're thinking. That is, if they're thinking at all. Mind control being what it is and all. I so missed having a garden this year and am truly envious of everyone that is reaping the summers rewards. We are moving ahead with our little aquaponics operation though. We should have the grow bed attached to the fish tank by the end of the month. So, maybe I'll get a few fresh salad greens this winter. And, best of all, we just picked up a free (off Craig's List!)15' x 42" intex swimming pool for next year! For our fish of course.

[ulli]

Here is a story I just saw, about the perils of being a normal Mainstream couple.
Also taking my cake theme a bit further, or should I say, reverse it a bit.....


http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/wedding-290.png

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2013/07/kate-middleton-ruined-my-life.html?intcid=obnetwork

[Benevolent Bear]

I have a pretty picture to show you!;)

[heretogrow]

Greetings,
I Woke up a while ago to the busy sound of bees only to discover about a dozen or so flying around in my room. Last week I was stung by one in the middle of the night. When I get up my nerve I will go back and open my windows to see if they will leave. This happened last year too. But then it was hornets and now they are yellow jackets. I can smell fall in the air so I know soon it will become cold and they will immobilize. May have to sleep on the couch if I can't figure out how they are getting in!

Ps- my fiery redhead daughter has some very feline qualities. This morning after a hissy outburst of hers I checked this thread and saw ulli's post about the solar flare. That explains it! She greeted me this morning with the human equivalent of a swipe and a "reeeerrrr!" Now she is curled up on the couch with the sun on her back. I take that as a sign she needs to be left alone and not bombarded with positive energy! LOL!

Have a good day!

[ulli]

I have a pretty picture to show you!;)

The purple bear has arrived. Welcome!

[Dennis Leahy]

Woke at 2:00 am with yet another backache that drove me out of bed. I think it has been 3 full weeks since I clumsily fell. Now, I wish I had been drunk - I would not have been injured. I believe the injury is a result of very quickly whipping my body around, trying desperately to catch myself and keep from falling. A drunk would have just fallen. So, this makes 3 weeks of only getting a short sleep before being awakened by back pain. Very odd that laying down does not work - sitting up does (but it has to be fully upright, not slouched on a pile of pillows.) Sleeping sitting fully upright is hard on the neck - and not very restful.

One of the things I've tried is capsaicin cream (made from hot peppers.) Have any of you ever tried that stuff? 'twas a new experience for me. I had my wife rub in a big blob (maybe half a tablespoon) into my lower back - I gave her a piece of plastic wrap to use, to keep it off her fingers. It absorbed quickly into my skin, so I had her rub another blob in about the same size. A few minutes later, the heat started building. The next 24 hours was a comedy routine. (Cutting to the chase, I'd say that was about 8 times too much capsaican cream.) Far beyond my worst sunburn (Irish tan) or the hottest shower, my back was on fire - almost to the point where you could roast marshmallows over it. Several HOURS later, I decided to actually read the directions on the cream, to get an idea how many more hours the fire would last until it went out so I could fall asleep. Unfortunately, the directions said, "a slight burning sensation may occur upon application but generally disappears in several days." SEVERAL DAYS! You have got to be kidding me!

Desperate for relief from the muscle spasms that I thought were causing the back pain, I decided to leave it on, mind-over-matter, and crawled into bed with a T-shirt, and somehow (exhaustion, probably) did fall asleep. The next morning (I think I slept until 5:00 am, an accomplishment), the fire had dropped in intensity. Now, maybe a 5 out of 10, where it had been a 7 the night before.

Over the next hours, there were intermittent times that the burning sensation became so mild that I pretty much forgot about it - it had worn off, or was wearing off. Whew!

A few hours later (now closing in on at least 18 hours after application) I had to drive a car. The contact between the car seat back and my back must have reactivated it, and it went from the previous marshmallow-roasting hot to the kind of heat used to melt steel in a metal foundry. I am amazed there was not smoke rising. The pain of a chemical burn was now officially worse than the pain of the back injury. This sh!t had to come off! Having read the package (finally!), I knew not to put hot water on it, so I tried warm water in the shower - and that pulled a reflexive howl of pain from me. Cold shower, lots of soap (shampoo) on a washcloth, scrubbing it off... and the fire was greatly quenched. A couple of hours later and I only had the back pain to deal with, not the deep back pain plus a chemical burn on the surface. A day later, I felt the capsaicin start to activate AGAIN - not to the extent of pain but enough to underscore the word DAYS on the package label.

Thank god I wasn't treating torsion of the testicles with capsaicin.

(By the way, I wrote this using hyperbole for a humorous description. Even though the heat captured all of my attention at times, I have no delusions that this pain compares with what millions of people endure daily. Just a humorous anecdote in the here and now.)

Dennis

[Eram]

Very, very difficult to leave my garden today. It felt so good to be there.

Watered, weeded, harvested (basil, tomatoes, cucumbers, kale, lettuce, beets, broccoli) and ate a little bit of fresh stuff (carrots, and tomatoes.) I so wish I could share the experience with all of you - with all of humanity. For a few hours (not from suppressing any thoughts, but rather from being immersed), there was no government, no wars, no starvation, no homelessness, no oppression, no suffering - only abundance.

I think it is good to stop and consciously focus on this feeling, to better articulate that which I would like to spread outward until the entire Earth and all her inhabitants know this feeling.

Dennis

This is how I turn your heaven into my heaven Dennis. :)

http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/1281/9lir.jpg

Since I found a natural way to detox from mercury (thanks Paul :thumb:) (25 years with 9 fillings, now removed), which includes the absence of sugar and wheat's and lots of fermented vegetables to enable the gut to be free of irritations and or inflammations, so the mercury can be removed with the help of boosted glutathione levels and 50 chlorella pills per day.

I think I'm hooked for life on the fermenting thingy .

[Benevolent Bear]

When I get old I will wear purple!

22719

I have a pretty picture to show you!;)

The purple bear has arrived. Welcome!

[ulli]

Woke at 2:00 am with yet another backache that drove me out of bed. I think it has been 3 full weeks since I clumsily fell. Now, I wish I had been drunk - I would not have been injured. I believe the injury is a result of very quickly whipping my body around, trying desperately to catch myself and keep from falling. A drunk would have just fallen. So, this makes 3 weeks of only getting a short sleep before being awakened by back pain. Very odd that laying down does not work - sitting up does (but it has to be fully upright, not slouched on a pile of pillows.) Sleeping sitting fully upright is hard on the neck - and not very restful.

One of the things I've tried is capsaicin cream (made from hot peppers.) Have any of you ever tried that stuff? 'twas a new experience for me. I had my wife rub in a big blob (maybe half a tablespoon) into my lower back - I gave her a piece of plastic wrap to use, to keep it off her fingers. It absorbed quickly into my skin, so I had her rub another blob in about the same size. A few minutes later, the heat started building. The next 24 hours was a comedy routine. (Cutting to the chase, I'd say that was about 8 times too much capsaican cream.) Far beyond my worst sunburn (Irish tan) or the hottest shower, my back was on fire - almost to the point where you could roast marshmallows over it. Several HOURS later, I decided to actually read the directions on the cream, to get an idea how many more hours the fire would last until it went out so I could fall asleep. Unfortunately, the directions said, "a slight burning sensation may occur upon application but generally disappears in several days." SEVERAL DAYS! You have got to be kidding me!

Desperate for relief from the muscle spasms that I thought were causing the back pain, I decided to leave it on, mind-over-matter, and crawled into bed with a T-shirt, and somehow (exhaustion, probably) did fall asleep. The next morning (I think I slept until 5:00 am, an accomplishment), the fire had dropped in intensity. Now, maybe a 5 out of 10, where it had been a 7 the night before.

Over the next hours, there were intermittent times that the burning sensation became so mild that I pretty much forgot about it - it had worn off, or was wearing off. Whew!

A few hours later (now closing in on at least 18 hours after application) I had to drive a car. The contact between the car seat back and my back must have reactivated it, and it went from the previous marshmallow-roasting hot to the kind of heat used to melt steel in a metal foundry. I am amazed there was not smoke rising. The pain of a chemical burn was now officially worse than the pain of the back injury. This sh!t had to come off! Having read the package (finally!), I knew not to put hot water on it, so I tried warm water in the shower - and that pulled a reflexive howl of pain from me. Cold shower, lots of soap (shampoo) on a washcloth, scrubbing it off... and the fire was greatly quenched. A couple of hours later and I only had the back pain to deal with, not the deep back pain plus a chemical burn on the surface. A day later, I felt the capsaicin start to activate AGAIN - not to the extent of pain but enough to underscore the word DAYS on the package label.

Thank god I wasn't treating torsion of the testicles with capsaicin.

(By the way, I wrote this using hyperbole for a humorous description. Even though the heat captured all of my attention at times, I have no delusions that this pain compares with what millions of people endure daily. Just a humorous anecdote in the here and now.)

Dennis

Poor Dennis. This reminds me of when I had shingles.
Let's see now.....
I believe you are being prepared by the higher powers for the time when your Reset Button will be used and you will then be in the driver's seat of political life and will have to deal with dissidents. Hopefully you will have compassion with them, knowing what it feels like to suffer torture.

[1inMany]

Good morning, Village

http://islamicduniya.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/good-morning-tea.jpg

Feels good to be back to my old self. Nothing like a good dose of 3d, I always say. Okay, I don't always say that, in fact I don't think I've ever said it. But, it certainly applies, so I might always say it now.

Went to a football game last night, two very long hours away. We lost, 45 to 0. I noticed that not too many people shared my appreciation for the humor of it all.

Absolutely beautiful drive, hills and pine trees...huge expanses of earth exposed...pastures that look truly like elite golf courses, only better because they are naturally there. I love driving on roads that are lined with mature trees and woods, I send grateful feelings out to them. I wonder if they are absorbing all the negative energy from the many drivers that pass them. They must, because it feels so good to travel where they stand so tall and strong.

Have a great day :)

Much Love,

[spiritwind]

Woke at 2:00 am with yet another backache that drove me out of bed. I think it has been 3 full weeks since I clumsily fell. Now, I wish I had been drunk - I would not have been injured. I believe the injury is a result of very quickly whipping my body around, trying desperately to catch myself and keep from falling. A drunk would have just fallen. So, this makes 3 weeks of only getting a short sleep before being awakened by back pain. Very odd that laying down does not work - sitting up does (but it has to be fully upright, not slouched on a pile of pillows.) Sleeping sitting fully upright is hard on the neck - and not very restful.

One of the things I've tried is capsaicin cream (made from hot peppers.) Have any of you ever tried that stuff? 'twas a new experience for me. I had my wife rub in a big blob (maybe half a tablespoon) into my lower back - I gave her a piece of plastic wrap to use, to keep it off her fingers. It absorbed quickly into my skin, so I had her rub another blob in about the same size. A few minutes later, the heat started building. The next 24 hours was a comedy routine. (Cutting to the chase, I'd say that was about 8 times too much capsaican cream.) Far beyond my worst sunburn (Irish tan) or the hottest shower, my back was on fire - almost to the point where you could roast marshmallows over it. Several HOURS later, I decided to actually read the directions on the cream, to get an idea how many more hours the fire would last until it went out so I could fall asleep. Unfortunately, the directions said, "a slight burning sensation may occur upon application but generally disappears in several days." SEVERAL DAYS! You have got to be kidding me!

Desperate for relief from the muscle spasms that I thought were causing the back pain, I decided to leave it on, mind-over-matter, and crawled into bed with a T-shirt, and somehow (exhaustion, probably) did fall asleep. The next morning (I think I slept until 5:00 am, an accomplishment), the fire had dropped in intensity. Now, maybe a 5 out of 10, where it had been a 7 the night before.

Over the next hours, there were intermittent times that the burning sensation became so mild that I pretty much forgot about it - it had worn off, or was wearing off. Whew!

A few hours later (now closing in on at least 18 hours after application) I had to drive a car. The contact between the car seat back and my back must have reactivated it, and it went from the previous marshmallow-roasting hot to the kind of heat used to melt steel in a metal foundry. I am amazed there was not smoke rising. The pain of a chemical burn was now officially worse than the pain of the back injury. This sh!t had to come off! Having read the package (finally!), I knew not to put hot water on it, so I tried warm water in the shower - and that pulled a reflexive howl of pain from me. Cold shower, lots of soap (shampoo) on a washcloth, scrubbing it off... and the fire was greatly quenched. A couple of hours later and I only had the back pain to deal with, not the deep back pain plus a chemical burn on the surface. A day later, I felt the capsaicin start to activate AGAIN - not to the extent of pain but enough to underscore the word DAYS on the package label.

Thank god I wasn't treating torsion of the testicles with capsaicin.

(By the way, I wrote this using hyperbole for a humorous description. Even though the heat captured all of my attention at times, I have no delusions that this pain compares with what millions of people endure daily. Just a humorous anecdote in the here and now.)

Dennis

Poor Dennis. This reminds me of when I had shingles.
Let's see now.....
I believe you are being prepared by the higher powers for the time when your Reset Button will be used and you will then be in the driver's seat of political life and will have to deal with dissidents. Hopefully you will have compassion with them, knowing what it feels like to suffer torture.

I am so sorry Dennis, I am ashamed to say you provided me with the second big laugh of the morning only because I have been there, although not to that extreme, many years ago. I liked what Ulli had to say though. I always try to make sense of some particularly horrible experience, if nothing else than to say I won't do that again. Thankfully I've never had shingles.

[Michelle Marie]

Thanks Nat_Lee and Spiritwind for describing your experiences. I did not sleep at all last night until I finally took a nap at 6 a.m. Very unusual.

I was saying this morning that I felt lots of energy and I feel all out of sorts. I don't have a home or a garden, but I'm going to volunteer to help weed a garden today. I'm feeling working with Ma Earth will help ground this energy.

The sun flare thing makes sense, Ulli. I've noticed I get "energy surges" and then find out about them. I knew I was feeling global energies, but I thought it was the events that are taking place and the energy around them. It's probably both.

I'm trying to stay focused on my life's purpose of serving using my gifts. I've done several amazing intuitive readings, some just spontaneous on the spot, that have blown a few people away. I need to make money now, but I'd like to do it by selling books and doing intuitive readings. I just put a new ad on my website for readings - www.smile4love.com. It is tempting to "just go get a job" like all my naysayers encourage me to do, but my guidance is to stay focused on my life's purpose and don't worry about money. (I'd like to tell my guides right here -- sure! you can say that...you don't have expenses to pay! LOL)

I have to reschedule a book signing that was canceled, so I feel like I'm starting all over again in that regard. I feel very up in the air with my whole life. I'm very free, but packed with potential.

Going to eat breakfast and get to gardening for energy processing. :-)

Healing love to all...

Love,
Michelle Marie

[Benevolent Bear]

I want to be a collective woman! A harvester, gatherer, a reaper and a sower of beautiful things.

[Flash]

Woke at 2:00 am with yet another backache that drove me out of bed. I think it has been 3 full weeks since I clumsily fell. Now, I wish I had been drunk - I would not have been injured. I believe the injury is a result of very quickly whipping my body around, trying desperately to catch myself and keep from falling. A drunk would have just fallen. So, this makes 3 weeks of only getting a short sleep before being awakened by back pain. Very odd that laying down does not work - sitting up does (but it has to be fully upright, not slouched on a pile of pillows.) Sleeping sitting fully upright is hard on the neck - and not very restful.

One of the things I've tried is capsaicin cream (made from hot peppers.) Have any of you ever tried that stuff? 'twas a new experience for me. I had my wife rub in a big blob (maybe half a tablespoon) into my lower back - I gave her a piece of plastic wrap to use, to keep it off her fingers. It absorbed quickly into my skin, so I had her rub another blob in about the same size. A few minutes later, the heat started building. The next 24 hours was a comedy routine. (Cutting to the chase, I'd say that was about 8 times too much capsaican cream.) Far beyond my worst sunburn (Irish tan) or the hottest shower, my back was on fire - almost to the point where you could roast marshmallows over it. Several HOURS later, I decided to actually read the directions on the cream, to get an idea how many more hours the fire would last until it went out so I could fall asleep. Unfortunately, the directions said, "a slight burning sensation may occur upon application but generally disappears in several days." SEVERAL DAYS! You have got to be kidding me!

Desperate for relief from the muscle spasms that I thought were causing the back pain, I decided to leave it on, mind-over-matter, and crawled into bed with a T-shirt, and somehow (exhaustion, probably) did fall asleep. The next morning (I think I slept until 5:00 am, an accomplishment), the fire had dropped in intensity. Now, maybe a 5 out of 10, where it had been a 7 the night before.

Over the next hours, there were intermittent times that the burning sensation became so mild that I pretty much forgot about it - it had worn off, or was wearing off. Whew!

A few hours later (now closing in on at least 18 hours after application) I had to drive a car. The contact between the car seat back and my back must have reactivated it, and it went from the previous marshmallow-roasting hot to the kind of heat used to melt steel in a metal foundry. I am amazed there was not smoke rising. The pain of a chemical burn was now officially worse than the pain of the back injury. This sh!t had to come off! Having read the package (finally!), I knew not to put hot water on it, so I tried warm water in the shower - and that pulled a reflexive howl of pain from me. Cold shower, lots of soap (shampoo) on a washcloth, scrubbing it off... and the fire was greatly quenched. A couple of hours later and I only had the back pain to deal with, not the deep back pain plus a chemical burn on the surface. A day later, I felt the capsaicin start to activate AGAIN - not to the extent of pain but enough to underscore the word DAYS on the package label.

Thank god I wasn't treating torsion of the testicles with capsaicin.

(By the way, I wrote this using hyperbole for a humorous description. Even though the heat captured all of my attention at times, I have no delusions that this pain compares with what millions of people endure daily. Just a humorous anecdote in the here and now.)

Dennis

Poor Dennis. This reminds me of when I had shingles.
Let's see now.....
I believe you are being prepared by the higher powers for the time when your Reset Button will be used and you will then be in the driver's seat of political life and will have to deal with dissidents. Hopefully you will have compassion with them, knowing what it feels like to suffer torture.

Ok, lets get all of avalon on my back:

this might be a case of regular medecine helping - in fact, it was shamanistic medecine 150 years ago anyhow: what about going to the doctor and having some morphine prescribed??? Your whole body would relax into a mellow stupor for a while. Just before leaving for Britain this summer, (2 days prior), I got a very bad back injury / got to hospital in ambulance, I could not move and at the clinic they would not touch me, they called the ambulance, and thought I would not be able to leave, even if I had the ticket and could not be refunded.

Wow, was the morphine necessary!!! Then aspirins with anti inflamation stuff in it. Plus my neighbor who came to work on me once the spasm were gone - she would not touch me either otherwise - thanks to the morphine (she is a sport medecine expert). In two days, I was fine enough to fly and drive in England, without morphine (driving on the wrong side of the road is quite a sport in itself, drugs would have been dangerous lol :p).

What about a nice smooth recovery???

Edit: I am against torture ;)

[eaglespirit]

My Sister-in-law snuck in a picture of me while working today...so I am sharing Here and Now : )
Didn't even know She took it!

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/1Eagle1/DaveSarah_zps16cbe394.jpg

[norman]

My Sister-in-law snuck in a picture of me while working today...so I am sharing Here and Now : )
Didn't even know She took it!

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/1Eagle1/DaveSarah_zps16cbe394.jpg

hehe, where else would I expect to see an eaglespirit?

[Dennis Leahy]

Woke at 2:00 am with yet another backache that drove me out of bed. ...

Dennis

Poor Dennis. This reminds me of when I had shingles.
Let's see now.....
I believe you are being prepared by the higher powers for the time when your Reset Button will be used and you will then be in the driver's seat of political life and will have to deal with dissidents. Hopefully you will have compassion with them, knowing what it feels like to suffer torture.

Ok, lets get all of avalon on my back:

this might be a case of regular medecine helping - in fact, it was shamanistic medecine 150 years ago anyhow: what about going to the doctor and having some morphine prescribed??? Your whole body would relax into a mellow stupor for a while. Just before leaving for Britain this summer, (2 days prior), I got a very bad back injury / got to hospital in ambulance, I could not move and at the clinic they would not touch me, they called the ambulance, and thought I would not be able to leave, even if I had the ticket and could not be refunded.

Wow, was the morphine necessary!!! Then aspirins with anti inflamation stuff in it. Plus my neighbor who came to work on me once the spasm were gone - she would not touch me either otherwise - thanks to the morphine (she is a sport medecine expert). In two days, I was fine enough to fly and drive in England, without morphine (driving on the wrong side of the road is quite a sport in itself, drugs would have been dangerous lol :p).

What about a nice smooth recovery???

Edit: I am against torture ;)
I have thought about ingesting some strong cannabis. I suspect that would relax me to sleep. (I don't have any, but could probably secure some.)

Have you had any of the "new" stuff the kids are smokin'? hahahahahahaha But seriously, I smoked 30 years ago, and what I then thought of as strong herb cannot compare to the medical grade cannabis of today. (I have had 5 puffs/hits in the past 30 years: 3 one time, and 2 one time. I know it is far stronger than anything that was around 30 years ago.)

Ingesting cannabis makes the effect last a long time. Again, from my experience 30 years ago, (cookies and brownies), it wasn't even a social euphoria - it was more like a sleeping pill.

I appreciate the thought, Flash, but the pain is not so bad that I need morphine. I think I would take morphine if I had to endure something excruciatingly painful, such as passing a large kidney stone or being forced to have lunch with Hillary Cinton. If it gets worse... wait a minute, I'm not gong to put that out to the Universe! It's getting better!

I do know a chiropractor, and was thinking about him today. If it is about the same on Monday, I think I might pay him a visit.

Thanks!

Dennis

[Gekko]

As elsewhere, the seasons are changing. Magical New England summer turns to crisp, spiced crunchiness and rustic echoes of settlers.

I've lost about ten pounds since this whole thing started, probably from bouncing off the walls as much as anything. I'm eating pretty much anything now except processed sugars, and as much as I can stomach. At the minimum 'healthy' BMI, but I expect as this turns around there won't be any more concern.

It's been a wild week... thank you villagers, for being Here.

[yukondiva]

Here and now adventures in 4 wheeling. I just have to say right up front "you know why male whales who wash up on the beach are mostly male?" well of course they never ask directions. And that is about the way it went, a secret trail into the woods that would get us on the river bed a mile from the glacier. In the spirit of comradery and love for my spouse I endeavor to follow him any where he may lead. After all he looks like he knows where he is going. I've been out here before with other friends on other trails. Mud and puddles that go almost to the seat.I was ready for that, raring to go as they say, as we set off into the woods as we passed a map clearly posted at the beginning of the trail I paid no heed.

At first the going was easy, but the forest soon turned treacherous. The whole time I had been riding I was asking the trees and plants to pardon my intrusion but I was doing this out of love.The puddles got so deep I had to stand up, soon giant hills of mud like a wall, trees large ones in the path, that had to be moved with a wench so we could pass. The whole time I knew we were on the wrong path and it was plain to see the farther we got the less the road had been traveled. On one vertical wall my head was two feet from the ground and two wheels pointing towards the sky, I pondered at that moment if I was going to be smashed by that giant machine that was barely hanging onto earth. After what seemed like forever I was up and we were on a trail between tons of small overhanging trees, trying to keep my head from getting knocked off by one I closed my eyes and swept my hand in front of me (I was wearing safety glasses) with my other hand gripped onto the handle to keep me on the trail when all of a sudden the handle bar was ripped out of my hand and I was jerked with such force I heard my shoulder send out a little pop. At this time I say 'this is not a trail', well it may be a trail but it's an animal trail we have to turn around.

So we did battling our way back my wheel well was ripped off my 4 wheeler. So we get back to our vehicle and my husband says I know where we should have gone. At this point I am beat and worried about how this will affect me tomorrow because anything physical can be excruciating. He decides to pursue the other trail I am still willing to go with hm although I know my strength is totally gone. He insist I go home with the trailer and my 4 wheeler and he will ride home after he finds the trail. I;ll take a moment to say here , there have been alot of men who have come to Alaska and said the same thing very few did. Although I am confident he will find that trail.

We traveled 3 miles one and a half in and one in a a half out and it took us two hours. I am too old for this ****.So thanks to mother natures greatest herb and a little drink I indulge in the Here and Now

[Benevolent Bear]

Here is a big bear hug for you, if you need it this morning.

Woke up about 3:30, got up and laid back down on the couch and dozed off till 5:00. Woke up to the sound of a women's voice. I could not understand what she was saying. Strange there are no other women in the house! Just my husband and me.

Had a good Saturday, my husband and I had a date. Went to a movie (Elysium). A bit intense for me. It did have a good ending, if you can call it that! Then we poked around a pond supply place, stone place, and a fencing place. We just looked, pricey options out there! Gulp!!

Some guy about backed into us as we were leaving and gave me a dirty look. I think he should be the one looking where he is going.

I did buy concrete to set the center pole for the tipi greenhouse. Will cut sapling cedars today.

Photo via pinterest.

[Benevolent Bear]

EAT ME!

I must remember to finish off the watermelon in fridge today. It is so good and good for you. I do not like to waste food. To all of the villagers have a blissful Sunday! Who has the time to carve a bear in a melon? Another cool pic from pinterest.

[ulli]

Good morning, Village. I woke up at 5 am. Husband's phone ringing...patient wanted him to see the wife urgently. People seem to be sicker on Sundays than they are the rest of the week.
Then spent the next hour composing a letter to a cousin of mine, in German, a language I have hardly used in the last 40 years... The pressure is on to go there for a family reunion.
No way, Jose! I explained that my family is now all of humanity, and in particular those who I have something in common with, spirit-wise. Besides, Im done with suffering jet lag, standing in long lines at immigration booths and security checks.
When my immediate family (ie brother) are ready to reach out to me via Skype, and show an interest in how Im doing....I might reconsider. Hasn't happened in decades, so I doubt if it will now. I'm closer to my parents, who have passed over several years ago.

Yukondiva, I hope you aren't hurting too badly today. Bear, I'm looking forward to pictures of your pond and tipi.
Eaglespirit, great shot of you on that roof. Astrid sends her love.

[araucaria]

Here and now adventures in 4 wheeling. I just have to say right up front "you know why male whales who wash up on the beach are mostly male?" well of course they never ask directions.
I agree, yukondiva, one way and another, driving with the opposite sex can been a harrowing experience; but at least some of us males would think of looking at the sun and shadows and stop driving east when supposedly heading west :)

[ulli]

This to me is wow art. Thanks for sharing this, Astrid


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[Benevolent Bear]

“My heart is warm with the friends I make,
And better friends I’ll not be knowing,
Yet there isn’t a train I wouldn’t take,
No matter where it’s going.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Selected Poetry

Exquisite photos on the web pipeline! My heart races!

http://crescentmoon06.tumblr.com/

[Dennis Leahy]

This to me is wow art. Thanks for sharing this, Astrid


UMn2q35HBeQSharing with an artist friend...

Dennis

[ruthy]

Ranchero music. all I hear is ranchero music and fireworks and noise makers being shot off in broad daylight- i will never understand that mexican tradition of buying a ton of fireworks and shooting them up when the sun is out. The dogs in the entire neighborhood are of course now going ape with all the noise. The bad part of living on a mountain is that all the noises from the valley carry up to you. That party could be miles away but I hear it like it was in my backyard! I will say mexicans know how to party like no one else, this festivity started last night, went into the wee hours, they took a break and now with fresh pep they are starting up again. I would be past out under a picnic table hours ago.

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I saw elysium recently too, what is interesting about that movie is that the director in an interview was asked if this is how he perceives our future...and he said, future?! this is our world right now.

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

22709


22710

I need a tropical hotdog night


Ulli, hoping to cross your new bridge one day


Love


Nora

Here you go Nora. Enjoy!

c0uqyjGuxyA

[ulli]

Here and now...is anyone else as concerned as I am about the US Congress' decision this week?
Reminding Americans of the facts here:
(From an article Dennis Leahy posted on Facebook.)
Thanks Dennis. Let us all try and stop this craziness now.

"In the 21st century Washington has treated its own citizens the way it treats citizens of third world countries. Untold trillions of dollars have been lavished on a handful of banks, while the banks threw millions of Americans out of their homes and seized any remaining assets of the broken families."

[araucaria]

Did you know: generosity and the loss of ability to work for a large corporation occur pathologically when the higher functions of the brain are damaged. Oh dear.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2414951/Brazilian-stroke-victim-stop-helping-developing-pathological-generosity-changes-brain.html

[yukondiva]

I know... I knew that might be offensive to some men. And we were trying
to keep the mountains and sun in view but it wasn't that easy in the thickets of the forest.

[yukondiva]

OMG Did Obama really call Putin a Jack ass. Don't care on a conspiracy level. But love it on a never happened before the public level.

[Guest]

lol Playdo I love you

Today I'm with a very busy gifted toddler. Whose attention I need....:luv:


araucaria....I'm not clicking on that link.


Love


Nora

[peterspm]

http://data.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/congress-syria-positions

[1inMany]

Goodnight, Villagers. Last one in, leave a light on, will ya? Oh, and the couple of you that are awake while I'm sawing logs, help yourself to s'mores, I left the makings beside the fire. (All natural of course, and no calories...I can do that, ya know.)

Much Love,

[heretogrow]

Here and Now, the men who are so called leaders in the United States don't look any different than bullies on the playground! WHo ever heard of" you killed your own people with poisonous gas so now we will kill more with air strikes to punish you before you have a chance to kill more yourself". I am so weary of our war warped society. None of this makes sense in my world. It does not compute! All it tells me is that crazy psychopaths are in charge and I am in better company with the snake that left his skin under my bed. I sometimes wonder if we will ever be civilized. Until then I will store food, count blessings and wish that mothers (women) were given a chance to rule the world. What mother could send another's child off to fight to his or her death knowing the pain it will inflict and that is for a bankers lie! For a civilization we are truly not even close to civilized and my heart bleeds for us! I am sorry. I am feisty and prickly with reality in the states here and now

Edit to add: this is in response to a long weekend and so call family "intervention" that proclaimed that by me storing food and freaking out I must be losing it.

The me that is losing it simply replied to those concerned, if you would take me seriously instead of feeling sorry for me for being so called crazy, and take responsibility to plan ahead and store a little food for yourself and your own families, I would not appear so crazy and an intervention would not even be needed. I am hoping to save you as we as me and mine and the fact that you refuse to even see that there may be a need to be self reliant only makes me feel the need to work harder to prepare and thus makes me look crazier in your eyes.

AS I said, it has been a long weekend!

[gripreaper]

https://sphotos-b-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1234202_199382166910470_928273879_n.jpg

[araucaria]

I know... I knew that might be offensive to some men. And we were trying
to keep the mountains and sun in view but it wasn't that easy in the thickets of the forest.
No offence yukondiva, it's usually my fault here when things go wrong so I need to show I'm not completely hopeless. :) The other day I was intending to rely on the satnav and clean forgot that the cigarette lighter was not working properly. It's always something :o

[Gekko]

Here and now... getting a bunch of my stuff packed up to move to an apartment. I won't start living there right away (some things to get fixed and rearranged), but it's the first step. Excited and nervous. I'm called to making it into a healing and study space for myself... it'll be the first apartment I've had without a roommate, so that'll be interesting. The building was just renovated into apartments and I don't think anyone else has moved in yet to my part of the building. Will have to find ways to block out the noise from the street. Stairs will be a challenge as well.

Feels like I'm jumping from lilypad to lilypad at this time... like working my way through a series of symbolic encounters. Who knows how long I'll even be at this place.

Gonna have to catch up reading all y'all's posts

Have a great day!

[ulli]

Here and now... getting a bunch of my stuff packed up to move to an apartment. I won't start living there right away (some things to get fixed and rearranged), but it's the first step. Excited and nervous. I'm called to making it into a healing and study space for myself... it'll be the first apartment I've had without a roommate, so that'll be interesting. The building was just renovated into apartments and I don't think anyone else has moved in yet to my part of the building. Will have to find ways to block out the noise from the street. Stairs will be a challenge as well.

Feels like I'm jumping from lilypad to lilypad at this time... like working my way through a series of symbolic encounters. Who knows how long I'll even be at this place.

Gonna have to catch up reading all y'all's posts

Have a great day!


Love the image of lilypad ....the fact that you used it tells me that you will be fine.
Living alone means starting a relationship with the person that is you. Verrrry important moment in your life.
Take good care of yourself, while breaking the habit of having others close by.
Of course we all will still be close by, just not in the physical sense.

[Benevolent Bear]

Took this picture yesterday! For you Gekko :) The best for you in your new journey! Took a pond building class 101 yesterday too! Big $$$$ for a beautiful pond. At least the class was free!

[1inMany]

Sync, lily pads. What a wonderful visual. On the drive to Dallas, I cross three lakes, four bridges. One lake I call "Lily Pad Lake" because on one side of the bridge the water is covered with beautiful green somewhat circular plants. I have no idea if they are really lily pads, as I've never seen a flower. But it's pretty cool.

Pulling the trigger this morning on having Em evaluated for Asperger's. Called the best place for this type of thing, they are now booking interviews for November and the actual evaluation for January. Called the school, they are checking to see if they are able to provide an evaluation any sooner.

Mixed emotions. When connecting the dots, it is obviously so. I never connected the dots before. It changes absolutely nothing, as far as what a wonderful and special person she is. What it does for her is two things. One, it explains a lot for her. Two, it gives me the documentation to make my job a whole lot easier.

When I taught, each student got what they needed. That's the way it should be. None of this everyone gets taught to think one way, everyone gets measured by the same yard stick, everyone's expectations are the same, yadda yadda. That's such crap. And there are lots of teachers like me. Then...there are the others. Haha.

I really would like the days of school battles to be behind me. Behind me are the days of making principals cry, and pulling in the state agency for education to forcefully make the schools provide the education that they, by law, had to provide. And behind me are the days of needing the strength to pull the dead weight of eight school staff members until they "saw the light." Oh, sure, I can do it. But a lifetime of that has left me weary.

I would much rather have a cooperative team, all with the focus on how to help Em, and each member being a loving and kind person. I worked with this high school with M, and have found them to be outstanding, except for the few.

Here and Now, bringing the world around to meet Em. Having faith that her Highest will materialize. No worries.

Much Love,

[ulli]

Sync, lily pads. What a wonderful visual. On the drive to Dallas, I cross three lakes, four bridges. One lake I call "Lily Pad Lake" because on one side of the bridge the water is covered with beautiful green somewhat circular plants. I have no idea if they are really lily pads, as I've never seen a flower. But it's pretty cool.

Pulling the trigger this morning on having Em evaluated for Asperger's. Called the best place for this type of thing, they are now booking interviews for November and the actual evaluation for January. Called the school, they are checking to see if they are able to provide an evaluation any sooner.

Mixed emotions. When connecting the dots, it is obviously so. I never connected the dots before. It changes absolutely nothing, as far as what a wonderful and special person she is. What it does for her is two things. One, it explains a lot for her. Two, it gives me the documentation to make my job a whole lot easier.

When I taught, each student got what they needed. That's the way it should be. None of this everyone gets taught to think one way, everyone gets measured by the same yard stick, everyone's expectations are the same, yadda yadda. That's such crap. And there are lots of teachers like me. Then...there are the others. Haha.

I really would like the days of school battles to be behind me. Behind me are the days of making principals cry, and pulling in the state agency for education to forcefully make the schools provide the education that they, by law, had to provide. And behind me are the days of needing the strength to pull the dead weight of eight school staff members until they "saw the light." Oh, sure, I can do it. But a lifetime of that has left me weary.

I would much rather have a cooperative team, all with the focus on how to help Em, and each member being a loving and kind person. I worked with this high school with M, and have found them to be outstanding, except for the few.

Here and Now, bringing the world around to meet Em. Having faith that her Highest will materialize. No worries.

Much Love,

The best thing you can do for Em is to encourage her to study astrology. It will give her such fantastic explanations that her mind can be at peace. Everything seemed so absurd to me before, but once I understood the twelve signs, their division into the four elements, of fire, earth, air and water, and the three types ...fixed, mutable and cardinal, and then the interaction of these elements...so much became clear. It is the most awesome of all sciences.

[1inMany]

The best thing you can do for Em is to encourage her to study astrology. It will give her such fantastic explanations that her mind can be at peace. Everything seemed so absurd to me before, but once I understood the twelve signs, their division into the four elements, of fire, earth, air and water, and the three types ...fixed, mutable and cardinal, and then the interaction of these elements...so much became clear. It is the most awesome of all sciences.

I respect you immensely, and love you to pieces too. Upon your suggestion, I would be glad to do just this. There's this little problem, though. Not really a problem, but the fact that I really don't get astrology. I understand basics, and know enough to see it's value. I haven't taken the time to go exploring in this area because my "soul development" (for lack of a better description) and the things I have had to address in my life in the last year have taken me in different directions.

You know Em pretty well, haha, from following the day-in-the-life journey. Where would you suggest I start with her? Give me something basic, a book to start her with, that would interest a young teen...and I will have it here by the end of the week :)

Always, Much Love and Gratitude my friend :)

oops, edit to add...many of you have expertise in this area, please feel invited to share...not just Ulli...and Much Love to you all,

[ulli]

The best thing you can do for Em is to encourage her to study astrology. It will give her such fantastic explanations that her mind can be at peace. Everything seemed so absurd to me before, but once I understood the twelve signs, their division into the four elements, of fire, earth, air and water, and the three types ...fixed, mutable and cardinal, and then the interaction of these elements...so much became clear. It is the most awesome of all sciences.

I respect you immensely, and love you to pieces too. Upon your suggestion, I would be glad to do just this. There's this little problem, though. Not really a problem, but the fact that I really don't get astrology. I understand basics, and know enough to see it's value. I haven't taken the time to go exploring in this area because my "soul development" (for lack of a better description) and the things I have had to address in my life in the last year have taken me in different directions.

You know Em pretty well, haha, from following the day-in-the-life journey. Where would you suggest I start with her? Give me something basic, a book to start her with, that would interest a young teen...and I will have it here by the end of the week :)

Always, Much Love and Gratitude my friend :)

Well, the books which came my way when I started could be a bit out of date now.

Maybe some of the younger crowd here could help with a suggestion. But that may not even be necessary.
All you would have to do is say that a friend says that astrology helped her with her Aspberger issues, and then leave the rest up to Em.
Once you taught her how to ask herself a question, then her spirit will guide her, and the Internet will provide the right answer. There is no better library.
Just start out by studying the twelve types, and compare what she ads with the people she knows.
Astrology is not for everyone, but it can help Aspberger spectrum types.

[Carmody]

Got up today thinking of how I've never met a single adult being in my life, including myself. Or, what I think of being a 'mature' example of what a human body can contain.

We bounce around in the way that we do, but the difference between myself, a young child, and anyone else, is a matter of degrees. This does not depress me, as that would be a childish interpretation. It's just an unloaded observation.

The most mature that I understand and recall, is when outside of this human body, when not anchored to the world and time-flow life living of the human body and it's attentional and orientation demands. The more I approach that mindset of 'other', the more I can connect to it, and bring it here.

We run out of time to reach any form of maturity, in my estimation.

Which does turn toward the idea that our lives here, physically, are somehow .....artificially shortened, or designed to contain no space for maturity.

Since maturity could logically allow for a high survival level/rate in the given beings (over time) - at least this is suspected- ...then..

The automatic conclusion is - artificial shortening, but that is speculation. Weighing in on it with emotion, as a final destination of complex consideration.. that would be childish.

If indeed humanity is a giant box of puppies (or kittehs), then who is holding the box?

[donk]

I dunno dude, I think of maturity as soverignty of self (which is required for emotional maturity) and ability to take responsibility (practical maturity, the manifestion of emotional maturity in our shared reality)

I do believe this artificially taken from us. If taught at young age, like when we develop language and communication skills, we'd have plenty of time (which I agree is also artificially shortened)

[Ernie Nemeth]

The Sumerians had an answer for this - we were kept from the waters of life that would have extended our lives.

It is sad or funny or strange or tragic that just as we mature enough to really get some work done we get old and soon after die. Youth is wasted on the youth (or however that saying goes).

[ulli]

Got up today thinking of how I've never met a single adult being in my life, including myself. Or, what I think of being a 'mature' example of what a human body can contain.

We bounce around in the way that we do, but the difference between myself, a young child, and anyone else, is a matter of degrees. This does not depress me, as that would be a childish interpretation. It's just an unloaded observation.

The most mature that I understand and recall, is when outside of this human body, when not anchored to the world and time-flow life living of the human body and it's attentional and orientation demands. The more I approach that mindset of 'other', the more I can connect to it, and bring it here.

We run out of time to reach any form of maturity, in my estimation.

Which does turn toward the idea that our lives here, physically, are somehow .....artificially shortened, or designed to contain no space for maturity.

Since maturity could logically allow for a high survival level/rate in the given beings (over time) - at least this is suspected- ...then..

The automatic conclusion is - artificial shortening, but that is speculation. Weighing in on it with emotion, as a final destination of complex consideration.. that would be childish.

If indeed humanity is a giant box of puppies (or kittehs), then who is holding the box?


There was a time when I was mature, but I was a lot younger then.
Then I permitted myself some slack and as a result I got stuck in immature behavior patterns.

My husband is nine years younger than I and more mature, by far.
Probably had a lot more past lives, and took a deep plunge into 3D, serving the poor people of this area.
Smelly people, with anal abscesses, or ninety-year-olds with ingrown toe nails,
or blocked ears, who after having had him administer an ear wash call out "Doctor!!!! I can hear!!!"
And then he gets an arthritic bear hug from them. That's what I call maturity. He comes home daily with homemade food which they give him out of gratitude. Or if they can't afford to pay cash.
Unlike me he doesn't question the fact why planet earth is still so backwards.
I'm just a spoilt brat who figured out how to manifest all of her desires and is wallowing in earthly delights.

[donk]

Max Igan once said in a talk I was listening to that he likes this thought:

How old would you be if you didnt know how old you are?

[jiminii]

well I just want to mature to a star child. I don't want to go beyond that. Just a happy playful star child running around playing with universes like they are toys. Yes that would be fun.

Jim

[1inMany]

Max Igan once said in a talk I was listening to that he likes this thought:

How old would you be if you didnt know how old you are?

Haha, that's a loaded question. Thirty with no wrinkles, in my case. But it is deeper than that. When connected to the awareness, there is no age present. It also depends on what type of maturity is being contemplated here. imo... At 30, in all 3d meanings, younger=less mature. But...spiritually? That's tricky.

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Eegads, you are talking about about a whole lot of responsibility.


well I just want to mature to a star child. I don't want to go beyond that. Just a happy playful star child running around playing with universes like they are toys. Yes that would be fun.

Jim

[onawah]

Remember this?
I always loved these lyrics
3FUGzwUTN80

WRITTEN BY BOB DYLAN- WENT TO # 30 IN 1967.
LYRICS: Crimson flames tied through my ears
Throwin' high and mighty traps
Countless fire and flaming road
Using ideas as my maps
"We'll meet on edges, soon," said I
Proud 'neath heated brow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
"Rip down all hate," I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull, I dreamed
Romantic flanks of musketeers
Foundation deep, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not I'd become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My pathway led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

(guitar solo)

Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now

My guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

[Carmody]

Max Igan once said in a talk I was listening to that he likes this thought:

How old would you be if you didnt know how old you are?

Haha, that's a loaded question. Thirty with no wrinkles, in my case. But it is deeper than that. When connected to the awareness, there is no age present. It also depends on what type of maturity is being contemplated here. imo... At 30, in all 3d meanings, younger=less mature. But...spiritually? That's tricky.

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Eegads, you are talking about about a whole lot of responsibility.


well I just want to mature to a star child. I don't want to go beyond that. Just a happy playful star child running around playing with universes like they are toys. Yes that would be fun.

Jim

The problem is that it is both yes and no.

That the question is one of great concern, and at the same time, meaningless.

Which brings one to the question of how to gain maturity.

To move to enabling and taking our maturity, or grasping our space and place to mature.... from that which 'appears' to hold it back. To get it done, but with no childishness. This is where those who do not understand the spiritual, timeless side, this is where they make the mistake. They somehow get tied up in a form of Reptilian 'lord of the flies' nightmare thinking. A notable level of immaturity. They don't see (projection as an input filter) the level of maturity required in themselves, so they cannot see that it exists in others. That corner has yet to be turned. part of that is the linear mind as a point of egoic expression. To mistake the upper 'now' layer of bodily integration and moment-to-moment interpretation as being the depth of the intellect.

Look at this story here, and how this model threatens humanity's formation toward maturity..and how the linear (time/now/projection/filter based) mind reacts.


Neptune steps in and gives the linear mind a friendly swat:

http://phys.org/news/2013-09-mathematics-effective-world.html

Is mathematics an effective way to describe the world?

Mathematics has been called the language of the universe. Scientists and engineers often speak of the elegance of mathematics when describing physical reality, citing examples such as π, E=mc2, and even something as simple as using abstract integers to count real-world objects. Yet while these examples demonstrate how useful math can be for us, does it mean that the physical world naturally follows the rules of mathematics as its "mother tongue," and that this mathematics has its own existence that is out there waiting to be discovered? This point of view on the nature of the relationship between mathematics and the physical world is called Platonism, but not everyone agrees with it.

Derek Abbott, Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at The University of Adelaide in Australia, has written a perspective piece to be published in the Proceedings of the IEEE in which he argues that mathematical Platonism is an inaccurate view of reality. Instead, he argues for the opposing viewpoint, the non-Platonist notion that mathematics is a product of the human imagination that we tailor to describe reality.

This argument is not new. In fact, Abbott estimates (through his own experiences, in an admittedly non-scientific survey) that while 80% of mathematicians lean toward a Platonist view, engineers by and large are non-Platonist. Physicists tend to be "closeted non-Platonists," he says, meaning they often appear Platonist in public. But when pressed in private, he says he can "often extract a non-Platonist confession."

So if mathematicians, engineers, and physicists can all manage to perform their work despite differences in opinion on this philosophical subject, why does the true nature of mathematics in its relation to the physical world really matter?

The reason, Abbott says, is that because when you recognize that math is just a mental construct—just an approximation of reality that has its frailties and limitations and that will break down at some point because perfect mathematical forms do not exist in the physical universe—then you can see how ineffective math is.

.......

[Gekko]

Where would you suggest I start with her? Give me something basic, a book to start her with, that would interest a young teen...and I will have it here by the end of the week :)

I just ordered this book:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JThvstw4L._SX260_PJlook-inside-v2,TopRight,1,0_SH20_.jpg

An experienced witch recommended it to me a few years ago and told me to ignore the title. I'm hoping it'll be a good introduction.

For what it's worth

BB, thank you for the flower : )

[jiminii]

Quote Posted by ulli
The best thing you can do for Em is to encourage her to study astrology. It will give her such fantastic explanations that her mind can be at peace. Everything seemed so absurd to me before, but once I understood the twelve signs, their division into the four elements, of fire, earth, air and water, and the three types ...fixed, mutable and cardinal, and then the interaction of these elements...so much became clear. It is the most awesome of all sciences.

I have been trying to study this double astrology with Eastern and western astrology. It matched my father perfect. And me, well wonder what can match me, ulli did some on me and well ... it is too weird ... I mean ... I would like to have more control of my future or whatever my thoughts and personality .... just makes me wonder why it seems so accurate.

I mean if we are all unique beings???? hmmm I just have to let the spirit do what it does and forget about what the astrology does to me. I just wonder if I could get stable outside the body and get enough memory back my whole personality might be entirely different.

So I learned how to postulate to change futures, but don't know if this can change the personality ... hahaha

I love you too ulli

jim

[ulli]

Max Igan once said in a talk I was listening to that he likes this thought:

How old would you be if you didnt know how old you are?

Haha, that's a loaded question. Thirty with no wrinkles, in my case. But it is deeper than that. When connected to the awareness, there is no age present. It also depends on what type of maturity is being contemplated here. imo... At 30, in all 3d meanings, younger=less mature. But...spiritually? That's tricky.

¤=[Post Update]=¤

Eegads, you are talking about about a whole lot of responsibility.


well I just want to mature to a star child. I don't want to go beyond that. Just a happy playful star child running around playing with universes like they are toys. Yes that would be fun.

Jim

The problem is that it is both yes and no.

That the question is one of great concern, and at the same time, meaningless.



.......


The thing is to allow oneself to occasionally make room for paradoxes, and just love them.
Take this from me who used to think logic was everything.
Well, it still is, up to a point.

http://assets03.blog.usabilla.com/wp-content/uploads/paradox.jpg

http://ninapaley.com/mimiandeunice/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ME_145_Paradox.png

[jiminii]

Max Igan once said in a talk I was listening to that he likes this thought:

How old would you be if you didnt know how old you are?

Haha, that's a loaded question. Thirty with no wrinkles, in my case. But it is deeper than that. When connected to the awareness, there is no age present. It also depends on what type of maturity is being contemplated here. imo... At 30, in all 3d meanings, younger=less mature. But...spiritually? That's tricky.

¤=[Post Update]=¤

Eegads, you are talking about about a whole lot of responsibility.


well I just want to mature to a star child. I don't want to go beyond that. Just a happy playful star child running around playing with universes like they are toys. Yes that would be fun.

Jim

The problem is that it is both yes and no.

That the question is one of great concern, and at the same time, meaningless.

Which brings one to the question of how to gain maturity.

To move to enabling and taking our maturity, or grasping our space and place to mature.... from that which 'appears' to hold it back. To get it done, but with no childishness. This is where those who do not understand the spiritual, timeless side, this is where they make the mistake. They somehow get tied up in a form of Reptilian 'lord of the flies' nightmare thinking. A notable level of immaturity. They don't see (projection as an input filter) the level of maturity required in themselves, so they cannot see that it exists in others. That corner has yet to be turned. part of that is the linear mind as a point of egoic expression. To mistake the upper 'now' layer of bodily integration and moment-to-moment interpretation as being the depth of the intellect.

Look at this story here, and how this model threatens humanity's formation toward maturity..and how the linear (time/now/projection/filter based) mind reacts.


Neptune steps in and gives the linear mind a friendly swat:

http://phys.org/news/2013-09-mathematics-effective-world.html

Is mathematics an effective way to describe the world?

Mathematics has been called the language of the universe. Scientists and engineers often speak of the elegance of mathematics when describing physical reality, citing examples such as π, E=mc2, and even something as simple as using abstract integers to count real-world objects. Yet while these examples demonstrate how useful math can be for us, does it mean that the physical world naturally follows the rules of mathematics as its "mother tongue," and that this mathematics has its own existence that is out there waiting to be discovered? This point of view on the nature of the relationship between mathematics and the physical world is called Platonism, but not everyone agrees with it.

Derek Abbott, Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at The University of Adelaide in Australia, has written a perspective piece to be published in the Proceedings of the IEEE in which he argues that mathematical Platonism is an inaccurate view of reality. Instead, he argues for the opposing viewpoint, the non-Platonist notion that mathematics is a product of the human imagination that we tailor to describe reality.

This argument is not new. In fact, Abbott estimates (through his own experiences, in an admittedly non-scientific survey) that while 80% of mathematicians lean toward a Platonist view, engineers by and large are non-Platonist. Physicists tend to be "closeted non-Platonists," he says, meaning they often appear Platonist in public. But when pressed in private, he says he can "often extract a non-Platonist confession."

So if mathematicians, engineers, and physicists can all manage to perform their work despite differences in opinion on this philosophical subject, why does the true nature of mathematics in its relation to the physical world really matter?

The reason, Abbott says, is that because when you recognize that math is just a mental construct—just an approximation of reality that has its frailties and limitations and that will break down at some point because perfect mathematical forms do not exist in the physical universe—then you can see how ineffective math is.

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Well you see the scientists still hasn't been able to figure out the Atom. It's because they haven't been able to figure out MOTION.

jim

[Ernie Nemeth]

What if the entire universe (the real entire universe that right now we'd call the mutiverse and that just highlights our limited perspective) is evolving towards the perfection of mathematics? What if mathematics is truly the language of God, like a form or vessel that the waters of reality are still pouring into? Once the pouring is done it will take on the shape and form of the mathematics, the blueprint for intelligent design? If that is the case then creation has not yet completed and we are in a proto-universe - still forming. That is why life approximates the fibinocci series, first slightly over then slightly under, the perfect ratio (PHI?). As the iterations continue (like the whirl of sunflower seeds) the approximations close in on the perfection, closer and closer to the exact perfect ratio.
The batter in the baking pan is the ingredients but it still needs to rise under the guidance of heating to become the intended form of the bread.

[Carmody]

Well you see the scientists still hasn't been able to figure out the Atom. It's because they haven't been able to figure out MOTION.

jim


Yes, F=MA (force equals mass times acceleration), but we don't really understand what that means. Nor can we truly quantify it into discrete form. We can generalize it's use in a gross form, but we are limited in that tool. It works on large masses, but breaks down at the subatomic level.

[1inMany]

Omg. I am understanding Carmody. I have come farther than I thought. Bless your heart, Carmody, for not giving up.

[Ernie Nemeth]

Me too, Carmody, Thanks!

[Carmody]

The point of the article was to illustrate that the firebrand, the sword of mathematics.... should not be held as the ultimate and perfected interpretive tool of the formation of reality -via science.

That our grasp is limited so we should be holding onto other tools that also work. To limit science to the tool of mathematics is to give it 'short shrift', is the point and that the world as it stands today... was built with more than the first spearhead as a single or complex expression.

The mind and vehicle that built the spearhead (and extrapolated it outward and onward) was and is capable of other methods and tools. That the danger of science limited to math is very very real and needs to be put back on the table, as it never should have left the table.

Again, science was parented by philosophy, which is a much more expanded and capable viewpoint/toolset - than science.

It is a huge misdirect to call mathematical fundamentalism 'Platonist', as Plato was first and foremost a philosopher, and math was merely a tool in his chest of tools.

It's kinda like saying that Christ will save/make/hold the world.... by killing/crushing/steamrolling all his enemies out of existence into a form of protracted and enforced monotheism.

[ulli]

Quote Posted by ulli
The best thing you can do for Em is to encourage her to study astrology. It will give her such fantastic explanations that her mind can be at peace. Everything seemed so absurd to me before, but once I understood the twelve signs, their division into the four elements, of fire, earth, air and water, and the three types ...fixed, mutable and cardinal, and then the interaction of these elements...so much became clear. It is the most awesome of all sciences.

I have been trying to study this double astrology with Eastern and western astrology. It matched my father perfect. And me, well wonder what can match me, ulli did some on me and well ... it is too weird ... I mean ... I would like to have more control of my future or whatever my thoughts and personality .... just makes me wonder why it seems so accurate.

I mean if we are all unique beings???? hmmm I just have to let the spirit do what it does and forget about what the astrology does to me. I just wonder if I could get stable outside the body and get enough memory back my whole personality might be entirely different.

So I learned how to postulate to change futures, but don't know if this can change the personality ... hahaha

I love you too ulli

jim


Love is easy for you...you are a Leo. The most loving sign there is.
Ruled by the sun, always shining their light. Then you have the sun conjunct Pluto, which I knew the moment you said you had these special powers and which was confirmed when I looked up your chart.
Sun Pluto conjunction people can move through all the dimensions.
When the conjunction is in Leo, which is ruled by the sun, then this power is even greater.
Very dynamic aspect to have.
Your birth was no accident.


Astrology is such a good example of world view in action.
Eastern astrology is more tradition-based, and leaves out the outer planets, like Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
Yet, as far as personal transformation goes they are amazing catalysts.
Pluto is the Alpha and Omega, the greatest of all transformers. The vortex or shaft through which one must pass to get to another dimension. Like taking an elevator up or down a building, accessing infinite floors or levels.

Then lets look at Uranus.
Take a word like "truth" for example. In astrological terms this word is represented by Aquarius, Uranus, or the 11th house.
Truth arrives via shock or surprise, a wake-up event, and reality adjustment.
There is no Santa Claus. Hello!!?!
Aquarians are the ultimate truth lovers, but they can be tactless.
Avalon is like an Aquarian struggling to become more gentle and considerate.

So when a person has a transit from Uranus, they either have stuff breaking down
that they had neglected, or they meet an Aquarian who wants them to find out that the military is working with ET.
Either way, it's wake-up time.

When a Leo starts to study the sign of Aquarius, their exact opposite,
and the personality that this Uranian energy represents
they can become more detached, and learn not to get hurt.
Then their lovingness becomes more constant
Nothing is taken personal.

Leo rules the heart, in medical astrology terms, and Aquarius rules the circulation system.
Heart is individual, circulation takes the blood all around the body, distributing it to the furthest parts of the body.
when these two are seen as a whole system, Leo and Aquarius, or heart and circulation system, then the divine enters.
Which it always does when the balance point has been accessed.
This knowledge can only stick with someone who has given it some thought of their own.
It cannot be transmitted the way you would fill up a gas tank.

Sorry to be rambling...I started out replying to Jim about Eastern astrology and look where it took me.
Oh, and then there is NEPTUNE, lest I forget....thats for another day.

[Ernie Nemeth]

The mathematics of today has many basic flaws in it, starting with our concept of zero, but right on through geometry, trig, cal, many inproper assumptions in specific areas like infinite sets, infinite series, levels of infinity - anywhere our finite understandings reach the limits of infinity or the infinitessimal.

The genesis of numbers, the vesica piscis and sacred geometry, are not even considered.

[jiminii]

Well you see the scientists still hasn't been able to figure out the Atom. It's because they haven't been able to figure out MOTION.

jim


Yes, F=MA (force equals mass times acceleration), but we don't really understand what that means. Nor can we truly quantify it into discrete form. We can generalize it's use in a gross form, but we are limited in that tool. It works on large masses, but breaks down at the subatomic level.

it is a space time continuum created by all the spirits in it. We create all the motions between each creation of time and space inside the space. That is why we with our own thoughts can also vanish any part of it by perfect duplication. This is also why we can create motion to change the weather or anything else we want to change.

Mathematics has it's applications but thought itself creates it. I can create a perfect circle and I wouldn't need mathematics to create it. I just get the idea of a perfect circle and I create the motions I need to get it. all other mechanics is secondary.

jim

[donk]

Oh, and then there is NEPTUNE, lest I forget....thats for another day

I prefer looking at Uranus, as you suggested :p

....guess I still got some maturin' to do ;)

[Ernie Nemeth]

There is only one perfect anything, no? Or I guess one perfect everything...

[ulli]

What if the entire universe (the real entire universe that right now we'd call the mutiverse and that just highlights our limited perspective) is evolving towards the perfection of mathematics? What if mathematics is truly the language of God, like a form or vessel that the waters of reality are still pouring into? Once the pouring is done it will take on the shape and form of the mathematics, the blueprint for intelligent design? If that is the case then creation has not yet completed and we are in a proto-universe - still forming. That is why life approximates the fibinocci series, first slightly over then slightly under, the perfect ratio (PHI?). As the iterations continue (like the whirl of sunflower seeds) the approximations close in on the perfection, closer and closer to the exact perfect ratio.
The batter in the baking pan is the ingredients but it still needs to rise under the guidance of heating to become the intended form of the bread.



When I look at life I see perfection.
Mathematical precision is in the design.

Take a picture of some seeds, mixed with small rocks and sand. You can hardly tell the difference between them.

Yet, given the right conditions, i.e. water air and sunshine, the seeds will sprout and become flowers,
possibly endless generations...while the rocks will still be rocks after a million years.

http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2005/251005/Seed%20stored%20in%20sand.jpg

http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2005/251005/Crocus%20laevigatus.jpg

[ulli]

The mathematics of today has many basic flaws in it, starting with our concept of zero, but right on through geometry, trig, cal, many inproper assumptions in specific areas like infinite sets, infinite series, levels of infinity - anywhere our finite understandings reach the limits of infinity or the infinitessimal.

The genesis of numbers, the vesica piscis and sacred geometry, are not even considered.

Here is another picture for you, Ernie. Don'tcha love it?

http://labyrinthlibrary.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/paradox.jpg

[jiminii]

Yes, F=MA (force equals mass times acceleration), but we don't really understand what that means. Nor can we truly quantify it into discrete form. We can generalize it's use in a gross form, but we are limited in that tool. It works on large masses, but breaks down at the subatomic level.


so what is the missing piece to this F=MA. The missing piece is INTENTION. Without INTENTION NOTHING can be put into motion and motion needs time and space to create in. This is why they can't answer the question is because they left the SPIRIT out of the equation.

so it should be F=MA + intention.

jim

[Ernie Nemeth]

Consciousness is either the key or the biggest scam - ..?

[donk]

I think the "+ intention" part is a constant.

Everything was set into motion...figuring out "why" is some people's reason for being....mine, anyway--I don't think it's a key or a scam, just something to do?

The equation is only useful as a reference point within the now.